Young Age May Suffer Diabetes Mellitus

Diabetes can not be cured, but can be controlled. Changes in lifestyle and diet to be the primary key. Facts reveal, every 10 seconds one person dies due to complications from diabetes, and at the same time found two new diabetes. Other data show, more than 80 million have diabetes (people with diabetes) in the Western Pacific region and Southeast Asia. Around the world, diabetes mellitus (DM) kill more people than HIV / AIDS. So great and the incidence of deaths from diseases related to blood sugar levels.

Since 2007, the UN world body made the 14 November as United Nations Day for Diabetes (UN World Diabetes Day). Diabetes is a chronic disease is not contagious noninfeksi and appointed the first United Nations. Previously, the United Nations Day just set tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV / AIDS, which is infectious and contagious diseases.

In Indonesia, the National Diabetes Day is celebrated more quickly, accurately and July 12. Numbers of people with the disease commonly known as diabetes that was just fantastic, ranks fourth largest in the world. In 2006 found 14 million have diabetes. Of the 50% who knew the virus, only 30% of routine treatment. WHO estimates, in 2030 approximately 21.3 million later Indonesian people affected by diabetes.

There are four times or types of diabetes, namely type 1, type 2, other types (because of illness or other factors), and DM in pregnancy (gestational). Type 1 diabetes can be experienced from childhood or youth and the disabled should get a regular intake of insulin for life (either through injection or inhalation). Meanwhile, type 2 diabetes is generally experienced adults and not related insulin. According to Indonesian Chairman of the Diabetes Association (PERSADIA) Prof. Dr. Dr. Sidartawan Soegondo KEMD SpPD-FACE, type 2 diabetes is the most, which is about 95% of all cases of DM. In addition to genetic factors, can also be triggered by the environment that cause changes in unhealthy lifestyle, like eating too much (fat and less fiber), lack of physical activity, stress.

"Obesity is a key factor in the occurrence of type 2 diabetes. Genetic aspects are not preventable, but the lifestyle can be changed, "said Sidartawan in the presentation delivered at the National Diabetes Day celebration in Jakarta, some time ago.

Type 2 diabetes can actually be controlled or prevented the occurrence through a healthy lifestyle, such as healthy eating and regular physical activity. However, as the development of age, lifestyle changes, such as the consumption of junk food menu high in fat and too lazy to move from relying on transportation and the increasingly sophisticated technology. Type 2 diabetes is usually found in adults aged 40 years and over, is now attacked at a younger age. "Last year the youngest age of 20 years, there is now 8-year-olds are affected by diabetes," said consultant endocrine metabolic Amsterdam's birth. Best efforts to do is prevention by early diagnosis of prediabetes.

Because, if already infected, is very difficult to treat. Complications vary, such as damage to blood vessels and nerves, infection (gangrene feet), dental rocking or date, hypoglycemia (blood sugar levels are too low), impotence, heart disease, stroke, to blindness. "If you have diabetes, blood sugar levels should be maintained and preserved as possible. In addition to exercise, diet regulation plays an important role, "said Business Development Manager Dr. Kalbe Nutritionals Iwan S Handoko. Some form of treatment is primary (not to be to prevent diabetes), secondary (not to complications), and tertiary (not to happen disability).