...Advocacy – Childhood Diabetes Type 1 Cynthia Letter addressed to: Barack Obama 44th President of the U. S. Healthcare Dear Mr. President, I am a concerned aunt addressing recent decisions that may or may not affect people in the U. S… I am upset with the idea of not giving Medicaid coverage to children with type 1 diabetes, “based on their income” my niece has been struggling for years with it. She did not receive Medicaid because of her step mother’s income, but that should not have anything to do with it. Her medication is expensive and they won’t pay for it; we applied for assistance and was turned down. As a concerned aunt I’m asking you to look into the matter and let me know something. If there’s a way around the system to help my niece I would really appreciate it. In saying that Medicaid should be for anyone in need of medicine or that have medical problems that medicine will keep them living longer. Thank you for your consideration; Sincerely, Debbie Townsman 1356 Ralph Ave North, Carolina 27909 Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes in Children Dr. David Hill Diabetes is more common in children The signs and symptoms are; excessive thirst, constant urination, sudden onset of weight lost Yeast infections, thrust – white film in the mouth of young children under one year of age Unexplained fatigue. Diabetes type 1 the pancreas stops making enough insulin for the body to process sugar or glucose. Cause of Diabetes type 1 The body’s immune...
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...Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Thesis: Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are two diseases that can be compared and contrasted according to the type. Diabetes Diabetes mellitus is a condition in which the pancreas no longer produces insulin. Diabetes can be classified according to two types; * Type 1 * Type 2 Compare and contrast Type 1 and Type 2 * Similarities * Differences Preventative Measures * Prevention * Causes * Treatment Type 1 and 2 diabetes are two diseases that can be compared and contrasted according to the type. A. Type 1 The pancreas no longer makes insulin or an extremely amount of insulin. B. Type 2 The body neither uses its insulin effectively, nor does it produce enough insulin. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are two diseases that can be compared and contrasted according to their similarities and differences. A. Similarities Both are genetic diseases Both have similar complications Treatment B. Differences Symptoms Complications Risks Preventive Management A. Type 1 Balanced Healthy Diet Exercise Medication B. Type 2 Insulin management Balanced Healthy Diet Exercise Conclusion A. Diabetes mellitus is a group of diseases characterized by a high level of blood glucose resulting from defects in insulin secretion and insulin action. B. Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes can be compared and contrasted in; Type of diabetes,...
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...strategies that can be used for my chosen disorder. I will research two alternative care strategies that could be used. I will make reasoned arguments for and against the care strategies identified. Many disorders have more than one strategy to fight with certain disorder. It is up to the doctor and patient what care strategies are the best for the patient. For my chosen disorder I pick type 1 diabetes. In my case study Janet was diagnosed when she was 10 years old and still in primary school. Apart from Type 1 Diabetes Janet had no other medical conditions and prior to her diagnosis she was healthy and rarely ill. Her treatment required insulin injections, calculated diet, physical activity and home blood glucose testing few times per day. I will consider now alternative care strategies and their strenghts and weaknesses. Some examples of alternative treatments for diabetes can be insulin pump or complementary therapy. I will start from insulin pumps. Insulin pump therapy is the term used to describe the use of insulin pumps in managing blood glucose levels in people with insulin-dependent diabetes. What are insulin pumps? Insulin pumps are portable devices attached to the body that deliver constant amounts of rapid or short acting insulin via a catheter placed under the skin. They are seen as a better alternative to insulin injections as they reduce the need for multiple insulin jabs per day and give the user increased ability to control blood glucose levels. Because the insulin...
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...cancer, or diabetes. In IIT we had to make a PowerPoint saying if we could make the world a better place, what would we do? We chose to research Type 1 diabetes, also known as Juvenile diabetes. Juvenile diabetes is often found in kids to young adults between the ages of 1 -20, but they can often be found in older people also. According to diabetes.org , about 1.4 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year, and only about 5% of the diabetic population have type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death, with a total of 234,015 death certificates listing diabetes as the under laying or contributing cause of death in the United States in 2010. Along with the death rate, about 208,000 people under the age of 20 acquired diabetes. During our...
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...Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system is activated to destroy the cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. This hormone allows your body to use the glucose from carbohydrates, found in food consumption as an energy source, as well as the storage of glucose in the body for future usage. Studies suggest that childhood diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes will develop an overly more aggressive form of the disease, than seen in teenagers, or beyond. This newly found study indicates that those who are diagnosed before the age of seven, will experience a large number of genetic disturbances such as cell loss, resulting in an outstandingly sizeable amount of insulin injections, and finger-prick blood tests needing to be had before adulthood....
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...Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the body cannot use insulin properly. Another reason that diabetes may occur is because the body doesn’t make enough of the hormone insulin. 23.6 million People in the United States have diabetes. When diagnosed with diabetes, people can live a normal life if they manage it correctly (Family Doctor). Diabetes is a complex disease which is categorized into a few different types and requires a variety of treatments. There are two types of diabetes as well as Pre-diabetes. Prediabetes occurs when blood sugar levels are high, but not so high that the doctor can say that its diabetes. Pre-diabetes is becoming more common in the United States. This type of diabetes greatly increases the risk of getting type...
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...Abstract Diabetes is a word that is used for a group of metabolic diseases, where a person has high blood glucose (less formally known as blood sugar), either because the body doesn't make enough insulin or the body doesn't act properly around insulin or both. "People that have high blood sugar will usually experience polyuria (frequent urination), they will become increasingly thirsty (polydipsia) and hungry (polyphagia)" (Medical News Today). There are three different types of diabetes; type-1, type-2, and gestational. Each of the three types of diabetes has different causes, symptoms, and treatments. Gestational Diabetes This type of diabetes only affects females during pregnancy. So needless to say gestational diabetes is only diagnosed...
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...In this article I will be talking about diabetes. I have chosen diabetes because my grandmother has it and I would like to know what it is and what diabetes does. I have always wondered why diabetics have to take insulin. I will be talking about the disease and its symptoms, possible treatments if possible, and healthful behaviors that can help prevent a person from getting the disease if possible. There are two type of diabetes, type one diabetes and type two diabetes. Type one diabetes is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. Type two diabetes is a chronic condition that affects the way the body processes blood sugar. The symptoms of diabetes are frequent urination, thirst, weight gain, blurred...
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...Diabetes Mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases in which the patient experiences hyperglycemia resulting from a decrease in the secretion or use of insulin. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune or idiopathic disorder in which the body destroys the beta cells in the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, leaving it to be unable to produce insulin. The disorder begins with insulitis, which is an inflammatory process that occurs due to the destruction of the islet cells, which contain the beta cells. In this process insulin production slowly stops and the patient begins to experience the symptoms of diabetes, such as hyperglycemia and ketosis, when 80-90% of the beta cells have been destroyed (LeMone, Burke, Bauldoff, & Gubrud-Howe, 2015). J.T....
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...INTRODUCTION Diabetes is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by hyperglycemia resulting from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both. The chronic hyperglycemia of diabetes is associated with long-term damage, dysfunction, and failure of different organs, especially the eyes,kidneys,nerves,heart, and blood vessels. (ref ) Several pathogenic processes are involved in the development of diabetes. These range from autoimmune destruction of the B-cells of the pancreas with consequent insulin deficiency to abnormalities that result in resistance to insulin action. ( Harrison 1992 ) . Whereas type 2 DM is the most common of diabetes , its specific etiology is not yet known . Its frequency varies in different racial and ethnic subgroups and is often associated with a strong familial , likely genetic predisposition more than autoimmune type 1 DM ( Alberti & Zimmet 1998 )....
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...EVIDENCED BASED PRACTICE RESEARCH- TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS IN CHILDREN EBP RESEARCH- TYPE 1 DIABETES MELLITUS IN CHILDREN EVIDENCED BASED PRACTICE RESEARCH- TYPE 1 DIABETES IN CHILDREN According to Health Encyclopedia, “The most common type of diabetes in children is type 1 diabetes… [It] is one of the most common chronic diseases in children… [It] accounts for 5 percent of all diagnosed cases of diabetes in the U.S” (Pat, 2015). Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is also known as juvenile, brittle, sugar and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. The focus of this paper will be on understanding how T1DM is diagnosed and identifying a research or evidence-based article that focuses comprehensively on a specific intervention or new diagnostic tool for the treatment of diabetes in children. Forms of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus There are two forms of this disease. They are idiopathic type 1 and immune-mediated diabetes. Idiopathic type 1 diabetes is diabetes with no identifiable cause; i.e. unknown cause while Immune- mediated diabetes; the most common form of type 1 diabetes results from the body’s immune system attacking and destroying pancreatic cells thereby prohibiting its cells from producing little to no insulin. Research suggest that environment, virus, family history or genetic may play a role in increasing the risk and likelihood of having T1DM and or the body attacking its own cells (autoimmunity). Further...
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...Discuss the current knowledge of the contribution of cellular and molecular components of the immune system to the pathology of type 1 diabetes Abstract An autoimmune disease resulting in insulin deficiency, Type 1 diabetes mellitus. There have been countless studies into its causes; there is still no solid answer. Previous studies strongly implicated Th1 cells to play a key role in the progression of type 1 diabetes, however, recent studies have been showing that this is inadequate to explain the pathology of the autoimmune disease Type 1 diabetes. In fact other constituents of the immune system are accountable; Th17 cells play a huge role in the cellular pathology of Type 1 diabetes. Introduction Type 1 Diabetes mellitus is an autoimmune disease which results from faults in immune response thus activating self-destroying T cells working against beta cells that produce insulin in the pancreas, causing a deficiency in insulin. Patients of Type 1 diabetes are required to inject insulin daily. Diagnosis of type 1 diabetes can occur at any age; however it is a chronic disease that is most common in childhood (Atkins et al. 2014.) Discoveries from epidemiological studies in humans with type 1 diabetes have shown that islet cell destruction goes through a number of stages (Campbell et al. 1990) the consequent low levels of insulin lead to higher levels of blood glucose. Common symptoms of this disease are frequent urination, increased thirst and weight gain. Before symptoms become...
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...Type 1 Diabetes HS 200 Unit 8 Capstone Project: Type 1 Diabetes Kaplan University July 8, 2014 An abundant amount of research throughout the years of the disease, Type 1 diabetes, has been completed leading physicians and patients to a pathway of a better understanding of the disease, the diagnostic approaches as well as the management skills needed to control the disease and its effects on the body. As Type 1 diabetes is thought to be an autoimmune response, there is not currently a cure for the disease because the body is responsible for attacking the insulin producing cells. However, with lifestyle changes including exercise and dietary alterations can impact the prognosis of Type 1 Diabetes into a positive direction. A long, healthy life can be attainable with the proper management of the disease as well as following the suggested treatment plan. When symptoms, such as bedwetting, frequent urination and extreme thirst, are apparent an appointment with a family physician is highly recommended. When Type 1 diabetes is thought to be the diagnosis, the physician will order diagnostic testing through blood work to determine the level of blood sugar in the body to confirm the diagnosis. The most common laboratory tests used are a blood glucose test and the Hemoglobin A1C test (MedLine, n.d.). Both tests require a sample of blood by a needle inserted in the vein, primarily in the arm. Blood glucose tests are utilized to measure and determine...
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...Type 1 Diabetes Definition: Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disease in which the pancreas no longer produces a sufficient amount of insulin or the cells do not respond to the insulin that is being produced. This causes the glucose in the body to not be a absorbed by the cells. Type 1 Diabetes or Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) happens when the body does not produce insulin, requiring the individual to inject insulin. Epidemiology: Type 1 Diabetes is prevalent among children and adolescents. Studies have shown that children receiving oral antibodies and insulin has increased eight times between 1998 and 2005.( Hindmarsh et al., 2009) The current global increase in incidence of 3% per year is well reported, and it is predicted that the incidence of type 1 diabetes will be 40% higher in 2010 than in 1998. (Gillespie 2006) The Search for Diabetes in Youth found that type 1 diabetes is the primarily in children 10 years and younger.(Aanstoot et al., 2007) High rates of type 1 diabetes were found in non-Hispanic white youth.(Dabelea et al., 2011) While most cases of type 1 diabetes are found in children and adolescents there is an increasing rate in older adults. Etiology: Type 1 DM is linked to a genetic component. Antibodies to the islet cell and to insulin are can be positive for several years before diabetes occurs. Non-genetic factors may also contribute. Viruse such as mumps, rubella, coxsackievirus B4 can be potential triggers for immunologic...
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...Hello Mrs. Zuczek! I’m very excited for English this year and I am beyond ready to explore the British literature you have lined up for us! Thank you for telling us about yourself so we can get to know you better, but now I guess it’s time for me to share about myself. A very significant memory from my past was when I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in the 2nd grade. I never noticed anything wrong until my parents pointed some strange things out. I had become gaunt, looking lifeless as my clothes were slightly too big for my childish figure. I was thirsty and going to the bathroom too often as well, thinking nothing of it until my parents picked me up from a birthday party to take me to the hospital. They had checked my blood sugar earlier,...
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