Did any of the type 2 diabetes heal?

What types of diabetes? What are its symptoms? How can diabetes be diagnosed with laboratory? And why do some describe diabetes as a silent disease? Did one of the type 2 diabetes cure?

These and other questions were asked in the episode of Al -Jazeera Clinic, in which we hosted Dr. Mohamed Al -Rishi, an endocrinologist, diabetes, general escalation, and a faculty member at Qatar University.

• What types of diabetes?

There are two types: type 1 diabetes and the patient needs insulin directly, which is a disease related to the body’s immunity. Diabetes of the second type, part of it is hereditary and another part of it is related to lifestyle. There are other types that are less prevalent, such as pregnancy diabetes and some types of diabetes associated with pancreatitis or the use of medications such as cortisol.

• What are the symptoms of type 1 diabetes?

The symptoms are always fast and accelerated, and are: an increase in urination, great thirst, weight loss, stress, fatigue, and sometimes fog in the eye. The person goes more than once to the emergency until he discovers that he has diabetes, usually he does not take a long time to discover his injury within weeks, month or two months.

• What are the symptoms of type 2 diabetes?

It can have symptoms and may not have it. In the beginnings there are no symptoms because it takes a long time until it appears to the surface, until it moves from the pre -diabetes stage to the diabetes stage, usually takes 6 and 10 years. Often symptoms do not appear, but after a while the pancreas gradually exhausts and loses beta cells that secrete insulin, and urinate begins frequently and thirst, and symptoms become similar to the symptoms of the first type, but this is after a long time.

• How can diabetes be diagnosed with laboratory?

There are several methods, including measuring cumulative sugar. If the cumulative sugar is between 5.9 and 6.4 it is in the pre -diabetes stage, the natural is less than 5.9, and some references consider it less than 5.7. The person is considered diabetic if the cumulative sugar is 6.5 or higher.

• Why do some describe diabetes as a silent disease?

Diabetics of the second type are called the silent disease, while the first type is not silent, but rather a public. The second type remains for a long time silent until the delay in the diagnosis communicates to the lack of silence, so the symptoms begin with the appearances that are similar to the symptoms of the first type, such as excess urination, thirst and stress, and sometimes it reaches the complications of diabetes such as taboos of the feet.

• What is type 1 diabetes treatment?

The only way to treat type 1 diabetes is insulin, either by needles or through the insulin pump, and the patient usually needs 3 needles with three meals during the day, and a long -term needle is taken at night.

• What is type 2 diabetes treatment?

The first treatment is a lifestyle change, exercise for 3-4 hours per week, regulating eating and reducing starvation and hydrogenated fats, which is the basis for type 2 diabetes. Then medications come like glucophage, and there are drugs that reduce weight and protect the kidneys.

Some patients have frequent urination and thirst, and these need insulin.

• How can type 2 diabetes be treated without medications?

There are many factors, and the matter depends on the time when the diabetes was discovered, if it is discovered after 10 years of infection, the beta cells have lost a large part of their ability to recover or work in a disciplined manner, in this case it is difficult to treat it without medications or insulin.

As for pre -diabetes stages or in the early stages of diabetes and when discovering it quickly, if the patient loses 15% of his weight, the diabetes will disappear as long as the weight that he lost is no longer, but if he returns to excess weight, the disease will return, thus losing weight makes the patient in a truce with diabetes, and if the patient’s weight increases, the diabetes will return.

• Did any of the type 2 diabetes heal?

Of course, many, especially in modern methods of treating diabetes and using treaded GLB 1 needles that reduce weight, and thus the patient returns to normal, and surgical procedures such as cutting the stomach, but as long as the genes are present, the disease will return if the patient returns to his previous weight.