Diabetes Basics
Insulin
Diabetes Technology
Diabetes in the DR
Diabetes History
100
A health condition that occurs when the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood is too high because the body can’t use it properly
What is Diabetes?
100
These two different types of insulin are used in classic diabetes management to mimic the function of the pancreas. (hint: broad categories)
What are Basal and Bolus insulins?
Will also accept: Rapid and Long-acting.
100
A device that delivers rapid basal insulin continuously and bolus insulin given at mealtime or as correction.
What is an Insulin Pump?
100
The most expensive portion of diabetes management in the DR.
What are Glucose Testing Strips?
100
The year the first insulin was given to a human with type 1 diabetes.
What is 1922?
200
An average percentage of the amount of glucose in the blood over the last three months
What is HbA1c?
200
This type of insulin is taken before meals, starts working 10-15 minutes after injection, peaks 60-90 minutes after injection, and lasts 4-5 hours.
What is Rapid Insulin?
Used for bolus and correction insulin (also used for basal insulin with pumps)
•Fiasp (Aspart) – Novo Nordisk brand
•Novolog (Aspart) – Novo Nordisk brand
•Humalog (Lispro) – Lilly brand
•Apidra (Glulisine) – Aventis brand
200
Classic method of type 1 diabetes management.
What is Multiple Daily Injections (MDIs)?
200
The terminology AYUDA and AAV use to describe diabetes with our campers.
What is "condition" and "living with diabetes?"
200
The typical outcome of a type 1 diabetes diagnosis before the discovery of insulin.
What is Death?
300
Name 3 common symptoms of diabetes at diagnosis.
•Peeing a lot
•Increased thirst
•Loss of weight without reason
•Fatigue
•Blurry vision
•Stomach pains/vomiting (in severe cases)
300
This type of insulin is taken at bedtime, starts working 90 minutes after injection, has no peak, and lasts for 24 hours.
What is Long Lasting Insulin (Lantus)?
•Tresiba (Degludec) – Novo Nordisk brand
•Levemir (Detemir) – Novo Nordisk brand
•Basaglar (Glargine) – Lilly brand
•Lantus (Glargine) – Aventis brand
300
Layer of tissue that insulin is injected into/absorbed in.
What is Subcutaneous Tissue?
300
The classic insulin regimen on which most people with type 1 in the DR are placed.
What is NPH and Regular insulins?
300
The person/people who discovered insulin.
Who are Frederick Banting and Charles Best?
400
A common complication of uncontrolled diabetes that mimics the state of starvation in the body. A medical emergency.
What is Diabetic Ketoacidosis?
400
This type of insulin is often given before breakfast and before dinnertime. It appears cloudy in the vial.
What is Intermediate Insulin (NPH)?
400
A device that uses an enzymatic technology which reacts with glucose molecules in the body's interstitial fluid to generate an electric current that is proportional to glucose concentration.
What is a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM)?
400
According to AYUDA/AAV's research, this percentage of the baseline youth population with T1D are living with HbA1c values >8.5%.
What is approximately 90%?
400
Insulin from these animals was used for many years to treat diabetes and save millions of lives, but it wasn’t perfect, as it caused allergic reactions in many patients.
What are cows and pigs?
500
Describe the differences between type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Be specific, include at least 3 differences!
500
Areas of the pancreas that contain insulin-secreting Beta cells.
What are Islets of Langerhans/Pancreatic Islets?
500
A hormone that can be injected or inhaled in cases of severe hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).
What is Glucagon?
500
What are 2 reasons why people with diabetes in the DR may not know that they are running at very high blood sugar levels throughout a large part of the day?
1. Lack of access to test strips
2. Prolonged hyperglycemia leads to perceived normalization
500
In the 17th century, Thomas Willis added this term to the condition of "diabetes," in an attempt to describe the extremely sweet taste of the urine. It is now a part of the full medical term for the condition of diabetes.
What is Mellitus?