Hello Class, for my week two discussion, I'm going to talk about Diabetes Insipidus. I’m going to explain what causes Diabetes insipidus, the symptoms associated with it and the treatments.
Diabetes Insipidus is a rare disorder that causes a disparity of water in the body. This disparity leads to intense thirst even after drinking fluids (polydipsia), and excretion of large amounts of urine. In most people, the kidneys pass about 1 to 2 quarts of urine a day. In people with diabetes insipidus, the kidneys can pass 3 to 20 quarts of urine a day. As a result, a person with diabetes insipidus may feel the need to drink large amounts of liquids.
The symptoms of diabetes insipidus are: Excessive thirst, Excessive urine volume. Excessive thirst: that may be intense or uncontrollable, usually with the need to drink large amounts of water or craving for ice water. Excessive urine volume: Excessive urination volume (or polyuria) occurs when you urinate more than normal. Urine volume is considered excessive if it equals more than 2.5 liters per day. A “normal” urine volume depends on your age and gender. However, less than 2 liters per day is usually considered normal. Excreting excessive volumes of urine are a common condition, but should not last more than several days. Many people notice the symptom at night. In this case, it is called nocturnal polyuria.
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The vasopressin produced by the hypothalamus and stored in the pituitary gland, the vasopressin maintains the level of water in the body by controlling the amount of urine your kidneys produce. That’s normal, but in Diabetes Insipidus the vasopressin fails to correctly maintain your body's level of water, and allows too much urine to be produced and passed from your
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Hello my name is Nick and I am giving my speech on Alzheimer’s Disease. I was thinking of what I could do for a speech. Then I thought I wanted to inform people on something that little know about. Then it hit me. Alzheimer’s Disease it has affected my life so much and I know so much about it. So I am going to tell you how it has affected my life in more ways than one. Before I start I want you to imagine something. Look around you know everyone right? All these faces you see practically see everyday take all that you know about them and forget it. Can you do it? I can’t. So try to imagine now that it could happen to you years down the road and the disease gets so bad you cant remember your kids, your mother, or even your family. You probably are thinking right now, it will not happen to me. Well that is what my grandfather said about 6 years ago and now he cant even remember my name.
Most people get diabetes when cells in the body are unable to respond to insulin or the production of insulin is impaired leading to poor metabolism of glucose in the bloodstream. The result is high amounts of glucose in the blood which is the cause of major diabetes symptoms such as reduced healing ability, chronic fatigue, excess thirst and urination, blurred vision, and weight loss. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that as of 2015, a third of Americans were living with diabetes or pre-diabetes. Those living with diabetes constituted nine percent of the population.
Eating can kill you !! Yes overeating as well as eating unhealthy foods can kill you! If you are wondering how this can kill you, here’s the answer: Diabetes.. Type 2 diabetes to be more specific. Type 2 diabetes is a disease that makes your body not use insulin properly.
Hope for Reversing Type 2 Diabetes For thousands of people living with Type 2 Diabetes receiving treatment is taunting. Type 2 Diabetes is an incurable disease that effects the lives of many people daily. The number of sufferers alone are depressing and the realization that modern day medicine has no cure for the disease isn’t at all hopeful. The message to this overwhelmed faction is reminded repeatedly, you can only maintain your type 2 diabetes.
Type one diabetes is something that last within you until your passing. The word diabetes is telling you that your blood glucose levels are high. With that being said, it’s telling you that your pancreas is done with making insulin. The insulin is the material to breaking down the sugars and proteins with the things you eat or drink. A hormone in the insulin helps the glucose give the cells their energy.
Did you now that anyone can get diabetes. No one knows the exact causes of any of the types of diabetes. My goal of this paper is to show you facts on diabetes. If you, family member, or a friend gets it, or can get it you know some facts about it so you are not clueless.
Imagine a young child playing, waiting for their parent to come home, but when they do, they look upset and nervous. Running towards them, they say, ¨Come, sit, I have something I need to share with you,¨ and they learn that their parent has diabetes, and their whole life is going to change. It could also be the opposite story, trying to tell a child they have diabetes and have to deal with the difficulties of watching what they eat, exercising regularly, and going to the doctor for regular check-ups. The rest of their life they have to act like an adult, even as a child.
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Opening: Maybe you have not known that Asian countries contribute to more than 60% of the world’s diabetic population . Diabetes increases your risk for many serious health problems. Worse news? Maybe you cannot stand on your own feet anymore if you ignore how your diabetes can affect your foot health.
Heart Disease is a very dangerous and life threatening disease caused by the hardening of the arteries, this causes them to become narrow, making blood flow slower. This disease can be scary and unexpected but there are ways to know you have it and ways to prevent it. There are many symptoms that come along with Heart Disease, but there are few that are most popular. Dizziness, sweating, feeling ill or nausea, and chest pain are just some of the many different symptoms.
• Food and beverages also affects urination. There are several natural diuretics which increases urination and serve as natural diuretics such as celery and parsley, as well as, coffee and tea. • Having an existing medical condition also affects how often a person urinates. These medical conditions include but not limited to: Diabetes. Since there is a high blood sugar in a person having diabetes, your kidney will work to compensate it and flush the excessive sugar by flushing it out from your body.
Obesity ... troublesome problem for many of us, many tried more than one way to lose weight, some of us succeeded, others failed, these days we hear about surgical procedures that may help us to lose more weight, here are some facts about obesity surgery. What are the different types of obesity surgeries? There are two main types of obesity procedures, restrictive and restrictive/malabsorptive procedures, in restrictive procedures the surgeon will decrease your stomach size to hold less food and so you will eat less food and digest food slowly, example for this procedure are Gastric band and gastric sleeve, the other is restrictive / malabsorptive procedure also known as gastric bypass, in which the surgeon will shorten your gastrointestinal
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How to Cure Diabetes Naturally Search this website 19Apr --> Today, I will take you to the very basic of living and gradually show you the way to cure your life threatening and debilitating disease: DIABETES Like in all diseases the fundamental of the process of disease include disruption of the natural process. Before you jump to the conclusion that diabetes is a non-curable disease, take a moment and think again. If the fundamental process of disease is the same why is there a cure for other disease and not for diabetes. Or is it that we are made to think that way so that someone is benefited from the way we think?