Type 2 diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose, or blood sugar, levels are too high. Glucose is your main source of energy. It comes from the foods you eat. A hormone called insulin helps the glucose get into your cells to give them energy. If you have diabetes, your body doesn't make enough insulin or doesn't use insulin well. The glucose then stays in your blood and not enough goes into your cells.
Over time, having too much glucose in your blood can cause health problems. But you can take steps to manage your diabetes and try to prevent these health problems.
What causes type 2 diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes may be caused by a combination of factors:
Being overweight or having obesity
Not being physically active
Genetics and family history
Type 2 diabetes usually starts with insulin resistance. This is a condition in which your cells don't respond normally to insulin. As a result, your body needs more insulin to help the glucose enter your cells. At first, your body makes more insulin to try to get cells to respond. But over time, your body can't make enough insulin, and your blood glucose levels rise.
Who is at risk for type 2 diabetes?
You are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes if you:
Are over age 45. Children, teenagers, and younger adults can get type 2 diabetes, but it is more common in middle-aged and older people.
Have prediabetes, which means that your blood sugar is higher than normal but not high enough to be called diabetes
Had diabetes in pregnancy or gave birth to a baby weighing 9 pounds or more.
Have a family history of diabetes
Are overweight or have obesity
Are Black or African American, Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Asian American, or Pacific Islander
Are not physically active
Have other conditions such as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), or depression
Have low HDL (good) cholesterol and high triglycerides
Have acanthosis nigricans - dark, thick, and velvety skin around your neck or armpits
What are the symptoms of type 2 diabetes?
Many people with type 2 diabetes have no symptoms at all. If you do have them, the symptoms develop slowly over several years. They might be so mild that you do not notice them. The symptoms can include:
Increased thirst and urination
Increased hunger
Feeling tired
Blurred vision
Numbness or tingling in the feet or hands
Sores that do not heal
Unexplained weight loss
How is type 2 diabetes diagnosed?
Your health care provider will use blood tests to diagnose type 2 diabetes. The blood tests include:
A1C test, which measures your average blood sugar level over the past 3 months
Fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test, which measures your current blood sugar level. You need to fast (not eat or drink anything except water) for at least 8 hours before the test.
Random plasma glucose (RPG) test, which measures your current blood sugar level. This test is used when you have diabetes symptoms and the provider does not want to wait for you to fast before having the test.
What are the treatments for type 2 diabetes?
Treatment for type 2 diabetes involves managing your blood sugar levels. Many people are able to do this by living a healthy lifestyle. Some people may also need to take medicine.:
A healthy lifestyle includes following a healthy eating plan and getting regular physical activity. You need to learn how to balance what you eat and drink with physical activity and diabetes medicine, if you take any.
Medicines for diabetes include oral medicines, insulin, and other injectable medicines. Over time, some people will need to take more than one type of medicine to control their diabetes.
You will need to check your blood sugar regularly. Your health care provider will tell you how often you need to do it.
It's also important to keep your blood pressure and cholesterol levels close to the targets your provider sets for you. Make sure to get your screening tests regularly.
Can type 2 diabetes be prevented?
You can take steps to help prevent or delay type 2 diabetes by losing weight if you are overweight, eating fewer calories, and being more physically active. If you have a condition which raises your risk for type 2 diabetes, managing that condition may lower your risk of getting type 2 diabetes.
NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
A method of treating dyslipidemia and dyslipoproteinemia using a dosage form that can provide an effective amount of fenofibrate to a patient in a fasted state which is at least 90% of the auc amount provided by the dosage form.
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Home Remedies for Fast
HEARTBURN [gastroesophageal reflux disease] Eat a high-fiber diet that include beans. Mechanism - Fiber helps move food out of the stomach faster reducing reflux.RudyardKipling | November 5th, 2017
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Felter's Materia Medica on Fast
ASPIDIUM The rhizome of Dryopteris Filix-mas and of Dryopteris marginalis, Asa Gray (Nat.
Ord. Filices). World-wide ferns of the Northern Hemispheres.... / ...pare the patient in
the usual manner over night for the administration of taenicides by
purging and fasting. In the morning administer 30 grains of the
oleoresin in capsules or flavored emulsion, foll...1
CHENOPODIUM The fruit and oil of Chenopodium ambrosioides anthelminticum, Linné (Nat. Ord.
Chenopodiaceae). Waste places throughout the United States.
Common... / ...or the removal of
the lumbricoid or round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides). After proper
preparation, by fasting and purging, the powdered seeds (10 to 30
grains) or the oil (10 drops) may be mixed with sy...1
EPIGÆA The leaves of Epigaea repens, Linné (Nat. Ord. Ericaceae). A small, trailing,
shrubby plant of the eastern half of the United States. Dose, 5 to... / ...cific medicine or the fluidextract may be given in hot water.
Trailing arbutus is one of the plants fast disappearing from our flora,
owing to its reckless gathering by wood-despoiling vandals. Thus a...1
GRANATUM The dried bark of the stems and roots of Punica Granatum, Linné (Nat. Ord.
Punicaceae). India, southwestern Asia, and the Mediterranean... / ... boil again until but one pint
remains. A brisk cathartic should be given at night and a light
breakfast allowed in the morning. In the middle of the forenoon four
ounces of the decoction should be ad... / ...Epsom salt, fluidextract of jalap, or
castor oil may be used as the cathartic. If the tannate is employed it
may be administered in capsule.1
PEPO (Cucurbita pepo)CUPE The dried, ripe seed of the cultivated varieties of Cucurbita Pepo, Linné (Nat. Ord.
Cucurbitaceae). A native of the Levant; extensively... / ...crushed seeds with eight fluidounces of
water, taken husks and all, after preparatory catharsis and fasting, is a
safe and often efficient agent for the expulsion of tape-worm. A dose of
castor oil s... / ...seeds.
An infusion of pumpkin seed is useful as a lenitive and diuretic in
scalding of urine, strangury and other irritative urinary disorders.1
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Materia Medica on Fast
CAPSICUM The fruit of CAPSICU M FASTIGIATU M, Blume. Internally a
powerful stimulant and revulsive; externally rubefacient and counter-irritant.
Prescribed in delirium tremens, in dyspepsia, in bowel
complaints and frequently in combination with cathartics as a car
minative. Dose, 0.06 to 1.0 Grm. (1 to 15 grs.) or more.2
KOUSSO (Cusso, Brayera) The female inflorescence of HAGENIA ABYSSINICA, (Bruce) Gmel.
Anthclminlic, tenicide, cathartic. The remedy (for tapeworm)
should be taken in the morning, fasting, a cathartic having been
given the previous evening.
A synthetic antipyretic, closely resembling in its properties and
uses Phenacetin, q. v.2
MALE FERN (Aspidium)DRFI2 The rhizome of DRYOPTERIS FILIX-MAS, (L.) Schott. An efficient remedy for tapeworm. The oleoresin is the best preparation.
The dose should be taken in the morning fasting, followed in two hours by a calomel purge, not by castor oil.2
WARNING: All medicines, drugs, plants, chemicals or medicial precedures below are for historical reference only. Many of these treatments are now known to be harmful and possibly fatal. Do not consume any plant, chemical, drug or otherwise without first consulting a licensed physician that practices medine in the appropriate field.
Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Fast
CONSTIPATION Medicate no more... / ...han is necessary. Prescribe regular open air
exercise, regularity in going to stool; correct the diet; advise a large
glass of Apolinaris before breakfast; if necessary prescribe general
tonics.
The laxatives best suited for habitual use are; 1, glycerin sup
positories, when there is simply inertia ...2
References
1) Felter, Harvey Wickes, 1922, The Eclectic Materia Medica, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.
