Getting to Know Diabetes (Term Paper Sample)

Diabetes
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Diabetes is condition where blood glucose level in the body is too high. There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 and type 2, these are the main serious conditions. Also, there are few other rare types. The common symptoms and signs are; being thirsty almost all the time, feeling tired more than usual, losing weight without exercising or tying to loose, genital itching or sometimes thrush appearing, cuts and wounds or any other injuries taking too long to heal, blurred visions or night visions and visiting the toilet frequently especially at night.
Recommended screening and assessment tools for diabetes include, risks test for diabetes for patients to evaluate their risk factors to know their risk for prediabetes, ADA type 2 diabetes risk test this test tool helps patients to identify the risks, ADA sound the alert risk test tool used in the quick assessment of diabetes risks. (McCulloch & Hayward, 2016).
There are types of treatment options, non-pharmacological and pharmacological management of diabetes. ( Otto-Buczkowska & Jainta, 2018). For non- pharmacological include medical nutrition therapy people with diabetes are put through a personalized medical nutrition, meal plan which is recommended by a registered dietitian. Another treatment plan is physical activity where exercises are recommended to patients with diabetes, and another model of treatment is blood glucose monitoring, monitoring help to check and tests their blood levels regularly. Pharmacological treatment plans include medication such as use of insulin, prescribed oral treatment. Type 2 patients are advised. Insulin is injected to blood and