Informative Speech On Type 1 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.

Diabetes mostly appears at any age, but often appears in young adults and children. To know the symptoms you could be getting is, being very thirsty, having to urinate often, Feeling very hungry or tired, losing weight without having to try, having sores that heal slowly, having dry, itchy skin and having blurry vision. If these symptoms go

Then, you’ll look for total carbohydrate, that tells you the total amount of carbs in 1 serving. You’ll use a ten to one ratio which means: ten carbs to one unit of insulin. For example: 1 cup of white rice is 45 carbs, therefore you would take 4 units of insulin, you cannot take half units. You do this to balance out the insulin to the amount of carbs you’re taking in, making sure you won’t get too low or have a high blood sugar.

You want to make sure you stay interactive with friends and exercise to stay healthy and in shape. It’s important to have emotional and physical stability so your whole life doesn’t revolve around the diagnosis of type one diabetes. Professionals recommend participating in a sport or other physical activities. The best way of managing Type one diabetes is accepting and having a very good, low-carb based diet, learning as much as possible to understand what is going on with your body and staying on top of your blood

In the middle of eighth grade, I was so skinny and fragile it felt like. I was participating in a basketball game and I couldn’t play to my best ability. I kept seeing light spots all over and I was so thirsty! It had gotten to the point my gym teacher was so worried after I came back from summer, she thought I was bulimic and called my mom. I hadn’t been diagnosed yet. During the previous three to six months I was losing so much weight for no reason. I always had a drink or snack in my hand. I had to or else I felt shaky and dehydrated. Another symptom I experienced, was that my skin would dry out so horribly. I’d have deep gashes from my skin drying out and cracking. I would put vaseline or neosporin in the places my feet had cracked open and throw on my athlete socks to keep as much moisture as I