People who are prone to diabetes...

We all know someone with diabetes and how life affecting it can be. With proper knowledge and care, one can avoid having diabetes altogether.(Nicolas T Founder of MindElite.com)

People who are prone to diabetes—especially those
who have the disease in their family's
history—should consider that there is a great
possibility that they or their kids might inherit
the illness. So, the best way to go about it is
become very informed about the condition. The
following are some the things that people who are
prone to diabetes must consider:

1. TYPE OF DIABETES. Experts say that the severity
of diabetes can be determined through its types
including "type 1diabetes" also known as "juvenile
diabetes" or "insulin-dependent diabetes" which is
an auto-immune type targeting the body's immune
system and the least common type; the "type 2
diabetes" also known as "non-insulin-dependent
diabetes mellitus" or "adult-onset diabetes" which
is affects the amount of insulin produced in the
person's body, and "gestational diabetes" which is
common among women who are conceiving or pregnant.

2. SYMPTOMS. To know if you are suffering from
diabetes or not, knowing the symptoms for each
type would help you a lot. Those who suffering
from type 1diabetes would experience 1diabetes
exceptional thirstiness, dryness of mouth despite
taking in lots of fluid, the urgent need to
urinate more often, drastic loss of weight even is
they are eating fairly well, exhaustion or feeling
of being weak or tired despite less workload, and
blurring of vision in most occasions. For type 2
diabetes, sufferers experience often blurring of
vision, wounds, sores, or cuts that takes a long
time to heal, itchiness of skin in many parts of
the body, frequent development of yeast
infections, increased or onset thirst, drying of
mouth, frequent urination, and mild to extreme leg
pains. Gestational diabetes symptoms are also
alike with other types it's just that they are
short termed because the disease ends once the
woman gives birth. However, people who have this
type of diabetes should be more careful because it
can lead to type 2 if not monitored and treated
immediately. 

3. DIAGNOSIS. For a person to finally know whether
he or she suffers from diabetes, tests for
diagnosis are a must. Although the symptoms can
give you a hint whether you are suffering from the
illness or not, relying on these are not enough.
Experts say that only way to confirm if one has
diabetes or not is to get a test. Now, there are
so many types of tests that one can get including:

- fasting plasma glucose test which, is considered
as the most preferred test for people with
diabetes and requires a person to go fasting at
least eight hours or ideally the night before the
test to ensure that the blood sample that will be
drawn and examined for glucose levels is accurate;

- random blood glucose test which, unlike the
Fasting Plasma Glucose test, doesn’t require
fasting but the blood samples should be drawn out
immediately after the person has eaten or has
drunk something; 

- oral glucose tolerance test which requires the
person to fast not less than 8 hours and prohibits
him or her to smoke cigar and drink coffee before
drawing the blood sample for the testing; 

- glucose challenge test is for women who are
prone to gestational diabetes when they are
pregnant; 

- impaired fasting glucose test which is
considered as a new diagnostic category for people
with diabetes. Here, blood sugar levels are and
can determine the probability of the person to
have diabetes.