If you have learned about diabetes in your life, you should have found that the severity of different diabetic patients is different, and the treatment methods are different.
Some patients require insulin treatment at the beginning, while others only need hypoglycemic drug control.
This is the case because patients develop different types of diabetes!
In mainland medicine, metabolic diseases with elevated blood sugar as the main symptom are collectively referred to as diabetes.
However, diabetes is also divided into different types, which include type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes and many other types.
The most common of these are type 2 and type 1 diabetes, which are the two most important types of diabetes.
So the question is, the same is the rise in blood sugar, what is the difference between these two types of diabetes?
1. Causes of illness:
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is clinically known as insulin-dependent diabetes, and its pathogenesis factors are mainly related to genetic genes, congenital immune system defects or viral infections, and there is absolutely insufficient insulin in patients.
Type 2 diabetes is not the same, although relevant studies have confirmed that it has a genetic predisposition, but more of its causes are mainly related to acquired factors, such as obesity, unhealthy diet and living habits, age growth, etc.;
2. Age difference:
Type 1 diabetes mostly appears in children and adolescents, it can also occur in all ages, the reason why it is so, because most of its occurrence is caused by genetic and immune defects, so the possibility of the elderly to develop type 1 diabetes is relatively low.
Type 2 diabetes is different and is affected by acquired factors, so it appears more often in middle-aged and elderly people over the age of 40.
With the changes in the diet and living habits of mainland residents in recent years, the probability of young and middle-aged people suffering from type 2 diabetes is also increasing;
3. Symptoms:
Presumably, many people have heard of the typical manifestations of diabetes, that is, "three more and one less", patients eat more, drink more, urinate more, but the weight will be rapidly reduced.
But in fact, this symptom is not all sugar friends will appear, it is basically manifested in type 1 diabetic patients, because such patients are absolutely insufficient insulin secretion, so three more and one less symptoms come faster.
In the early stage of the disease, type 2 diabetes patients basically do not have any symptoms, and the vast majority of patients know the condition, and they are diagnosed after an accidental physical examination or complications;
4. Complications:
The most frightening thing about diabetes is that it can induce a variety of complications. Relevant studies have shown that there are more than 100 complications related to diabetes, and after more than 10 years of diabetes, 30 to 40% of patients will have at least one complication.
However, the complications of patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes vary, and the former is mostly acute complications, such as ketoacidosis is a common one.
The incidence of type 2 diabetes causing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetic eye diseases or diabetic foot and kidney damage is much higher than that of type 1;
5. Differences in treatment:
Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus can only rely on lifelong insulin injections for treatment due to absolute lack of insulin secretion and severe impairment of islet function.
However, patients with type 2 diabetes are different, in the prediabetes stage, patients can be adjusted by improving their lives and diets, and in the early stages of diagnosed diabetes, they can control the disease through various hypoglycemic drugs.
Patients may require treatment with insulin only when hypoglycemic drugs do not work well.
All in all, although type 1 and type 2 diabetes are both elevated in blood sugar and will have complications, there are absolute essential differences between the two, and the treatment methods are not the same.
Therefore, these two types of diabetes can not be confused, after the discovery of elevated blood sugar, patients can not blindly control the use of drugs, active medical examination, after the diagnosis of the type can be targeted treatment.