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Why are Diabetics at a Higher Risk of Infection?

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All of us have observed or heard that there is always an increased risk of infection in people suffering from diabetes. Infections also take a longer time to heal if diabetes remains undiagnosed or uncontrolled. Sometimes, when some infections do not heal for a long time, diabetes is a coincidental diagnosis when you visit your doctor repeatedly. Why does this happen in diabetes? Diabetes is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level over a prolonged period of time. This high blood sugar level is believed to weaken the immune system, specifically in type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes generally has an over-active immune system due to the auto-immune nature of the disease. In type 1 diabetes, the body’s T lymphocytes target against the body’s own insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Type 2 diabetes has a chronic state of inflammation within the body, especially when it is uncontrolled of undiagnosed. The increased blood sugar level i...

How to Keep Calm During Corona virus Crisis?

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Mental Health in COVID Crisis is Important! It’s hard to stay calm. Not only in India, but people around the countries in the world also find it tough to deal with the crisis of coronavirus. People have lost their jobs, the economy is on its lower side, the cases of domestic violence increased, the country is fighting against all odds to shine better, a lot of loved ones have left us forever. The reasons to have a negative state of mind are many. But the hope that everything would get better keeps us all going. The emotions of fear, having butterflies in our stomach, uncertainty are normal human emotions in such a crisis. The problem arises when these emotions take a toll over our mental and physical health and put us in situations of depression and other mental health diseases or disorders such as anxiety disorders. Though mental health was less talked about a few years back till Deepika Padukone made a bold confession about her fight with depression; it has never been...

The World Needs to Take Lessons from Coronavirus Outbreak!

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We have dealt with an unpreceded pandemic in the whole world. We have dealt with the coronavirus outbreak and would be dealing with the after-consequences of this outbreak for many months. Probably this was nature’s way of replenishing itself and getting humans locked in their own homes. They say time is powerful, and this time; time has proved it! All of us wanted to go out and work and enjoy after a point of time. But none of us could!  For the first time in our lives, many of us were tired of chilling at home. Some of us did love it though! Like a good student and a human being, each of us should take the lessons which this crisis wanted us to learn: ·          Nursery rhymes are interesting, nursery lessons are important in life! Wash your hands before and after eating, after coming home and at regular intervals. Cover your face when you sneeze or cough. Keep your shoes outside in the rack when you step inside your room. These...

Diabetes

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A condition that impairs the body’s ability to process blood glucose is diabetes. Common terms used for it are ‘Madhumeh’ and ‘sugar’.   Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic disorders characterized by a high blood sugar level over a prolonged period of time. Metabolic disorders happen in the body when abnormal one or more chemical processes alter the common metabolic functions of the body. Types of Diabetes Let us look at some common types of diabetes: 1. Type I diabetes   It is also known as juvenile diabetes. Generally, insulin production is completely absent in patients of type I diabetes. Such patients are dependent on external insulin. 2. Type II diabetes It is also known as Adult - Onset Diabetes. Insulin production may be low in quantity and quality or cells of the body may not be sensitive enough towards insulin. Both conditions can co-occur in type II diabetes. 3. Prediabetes In this condition, blood sugar level is high...