- Diabetes mellitus means “honey-sweet flow”
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus is a chronic, incurable disease
- A person cannot live without insulin
- a malfunction in the body’s own defense system leads to the destruction of the insulin-producing cells
- Parents, children and young people are not to blame for the disease
- People suffering from type 1 diabetes mellitus do not have their own
- more insulin and therefore always need external insulin
- there are different types of diabetes
There are at least three other types of diabetes.
Here follows the comparison between type 1 diabetes and the common type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus type 1…
- is a chronic disease
- Causes: failure of the body’s own
- defense system
- Frequency: often younger people
- Therapy and treatment: insulin
Diabetes mellitus type 2…
- is a chronic disease
- Causes: Predisposition, obesity, lack of exercise, other diseases, etc.
- Frequency: often older people
- Therapy and treatment: healthy nutrition, exercise, tablets, intestinal hormones, insulin