Diabetes

• What is diabetes?

  Diabetes is a condition where you are unable to control your own blood glucose levels. In Type I diabetes the body does not release insulin. In type II diabetes the body cells do not respond to the chemical signal from insulin.
• Symptoms:

  Glucose in urine detected by a Benedict’s test.

  Treatments:

  • Injecting insulin
  • pancreas transplants
  • low sugar/ carbohydrates diet