Diabetes

• What is the problem with type 1 diabetes?

  The pancreas stops producing insulin
• What do type 1 diabetes have an effect on blood glucose?

  When blood glucose levels rise, there is no insulin to bring them down again, so blood glucose is uncontrollable high
• What are the treatments for type 1 diabetes?

  1. daily infections of insulin
  2. Carbohydrate controlled diet (to take in less glucose)
  3. physical activity (to use up glucose and bring down concentration in the blood)
• What are some advantages of whole pancreas transplants?

  • can be done successfully
• What are some disadvantages of whole pancreas transplants?

  • operation is risky and difficult
  • not enough donors
  • Need immuno-suppressants to stop the organ being rejected
• What are the advantages of pancreatic cell transplants?

  It can be taken from living donors
• What are the disadvantages of pancreatic cell transplants?

  Limited success so far
• What is the problem of type 2 diabetes?

  The body’s cells become resistant to insulin
• What does having type 2 diabetes have an effect on blood glucose?

  The body’s cells become still produces insulin but when blood glucose rises, insulin has no effect to reduce it.
• What are the treatments of type 2 diabetes?

  • carbohydrate controlled diet (to take in less glucose)
  • Physical activity (to use up glucose and bring down concentration in the blood)
• Why does injections don't work as a treatment for type 2 diabetes?

  As a lack of insulin isn’t the problem
• How could you get type 2 diabete?

  • it is seen in older people
  • Obesity is a risk factor, type 2 is becoming more common in all ages.