Diabetes is a health problem in the body whereby sugar levels get to be tampered with hence making them either dropping or shooting up beyond their required levels.
When this happens, the patient is always left to suffer all the consequences of this disease and if left unattended to, the condition may lead to death.
This disease is believed to be genetically enhanced and usually runs in the family tree contrary to reports which suggest that diabetes is contagious.
More about diabetes is that, the condition where by sugar rises beyond the body's expectation is known as Diabetes mellitus while the condition where by the sugar levels drop beyond the standard levels is referred to as Diabetes insipidus.
Diabetes mellitus is a type of diabetes that usually affects the ability of the body to either produce or respond to insulin, a hormone responsible for allowing blood sugar which is in the form of glucose, to enter the body cells and be utilized for the purposes of producing energy which is supposed to be used by the body.
For this reason, too much glucose gets to stay in the blood which leads to the spillage of some of it into the patient's urine hence making him pass urine that is full of sugar.
When the blood glucose levels continue to elevate, two major problems in the body usually occur.
The first problem involves, the body cells becoming starved for energy while the second one involves, the damaging of the body nerves, blood vessels, kidneys, eye vessels not forgetting the heart vessels.
Other than producing urine full of sugar, symptoms of diabetes mellitus may include excessive levels of thirst, extreme hunger, irritability, sweet smelling breath and vomiting episodes.
More about diabetes mellitus is that, it can attack anyone regardless of his or her age, sex, social status or body size.
However, the condition is more severe in men than in women.
The reason for saying this is that, men often have erectile dysfunction whenever they suffer from this disease.
For this reason, men are usually advised to go and be diagnosed for diabetes whenever they start realizing that they are having erectile problems.
On the other hand, unlike in the case of diabetes mellitus, diabetes insipidus (DI) is usually characterized by the excretion of large amounts of extremely diluted urine that does not get reduced even when fluid intake is minimized.
This problem denotes the lack of ability of the patient's kidney to concentrate urine.
Diabetes insipidus is often triggered by a deficiency of a particular hormone in the body commonly known as the antidiuretic or vasopressin hormone.
This deficiency is usually caused by the destruction of the posterior part of the pituitary gland a place where the hormone is usually released from.
Another reason that may cause diabetes insipidus to occur when the kidneys become insensitive towards the vasopressin hormone.
More about diabetes insipidus is that, children with this condition may have symptoms such as, vomiting, diarrhea or get to extremely urinate without stopping throughout the day.
In the case of adults, they may remain very healthy for a very long period of time so long as they keep on taking enough water to substitute the one being lost through urination.
However, a continuous risk of dehydration is usually inevitable even to them.
Unfortunately, non of the two forms of diabetes have cures up to today and the only way you can help yourself or be helped is by managing the problem so that it does not get out of hand.
Once the doctor diagnoses you and finds out which type of diabetes you have, he or she will be able to prescribe to you the available treatments that may best suite your condition.
For example, patients with central and gestational diabetes insipidus may be treated with desmopressin since they respond well to it but because nephrogenic diabetes insipidus does not respond to desmopressin, diuretic hydrochlorothiazide or indomenthacin may be used to treat it and the same process applies to the other types of diabetes.