Medical Professionals
This medical professional is seen annually and helps with diagnostic and preventative measures.
What is a primary care physician?
This is one of the most common signs of both T1 and T2 diabetes. This can cause increased urination.
What is unquenchable thirst?
You should get at least 60 minutes of this each day.
What is exercise?
Exercise regularly to manage your weight.
This type of diabetes is usually developed as an adult. It develops when the pancreas is unable to produce enough insulin or when the body becomes resistant to insulin.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
This was invented by Arnold Kadish in 1963 and was the size of a microwave oven.
What is the insulin pump?
The first insulin pumps were worn like backpacks.
This medical professional educates and aids in lifestyle changes.
What is a Nutritionist or Dietitian?
This is can be caused by issues with circulation or nerve damage caused by high blood sugars.
What is numbness or tingling?
This increases at age 21, but shouldn't be done in excess.
What is limit alcohol intake?
This type of diabetes is generally diagnosed early in life. It develops when the pancreas produces little to no insulin. This type of diabetes is caused by an autoimmune reaction that destroys the cells that produce insulin.
What is Type 1 Diabetes or Juvenile Diabetes?
The first patient to receive insulin treatment was a 14 year old boy. Children with this complication of diabetes stayed in large hospital wards of about 50 kids.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
In one of medicine's most dramatic and historic events, Banting, Best, and Collip treated a whole ward of children in diabetic ketoacidosis. By the time they injected the last child, the first ones were awakening from their comas.
This medical professional specializes in diagnosing and treating disorders of the endocrine glands and hormones.
What is an endocrinologist?
You can try to control this with diet and exercise changes, but it can be affected by several factors outside of lifestyle.
What is weight gain or loss?
You should taste the rainbow while doing this.
What is eat a balanced diet?
This type of diabetes develops in pregnant women. After their pregnancy, they are at a higher risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
What is gestational diabetes?
This drug was discovered in 1921 by Sir Frederick G. Banting, Charles H. Best, and JJR Macleod at the University of Toronto and it was first used to treat diabetes in 1922. The patent for this drug was sold for $1 and 3 producers now dominate 90% of it's world market.
What is insulin?
The 1923 Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to Banting and Macleod for the discovery of insulin.
Today Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, and Sanofi ("the big 3") produce 90% of the total insulin in the world.
Diabetics are at a higher risk for kidney disease. This medical professional treats diseases of the kidney.
What is a Nephrologist?
If you notice this, you may think to brush your teeth. It's not a bad smell, rather it's sweet.
What is fruity breath?
Fun fact: Upon urinalysis for diagnosing diabetes the urine smells sweet due to the loss of excess sugars. This was one of the first ways diabetes was diagnosed.
This habit doubles the risk of being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
What is smoking?
9.4% of the world population has been diagnosed with diabetes. This percentage is expected to increase by 11% in the next 25 years due to an increase in this type of diabetes.
What is Type 2 diabetes?
Harold Percival Himsworth (British) first differentiated T1 and T2 diabetes in this year. Individuals with T1 are insulin dependent and individuals with T2 are insulin resistant. Both forms result in hyperglycemia.
What is 1936?
Oral medications specifically targeted toward treating T2 diabetes were introduced in the mid 1950s.