My dad found out he was slightly diabetic, What does that mean?!


Question: My dad found out he was slightly diabetic, What does that mean.?
He down plays everything...How can you be slightly anything.? Is he a diabetic.?Health Question & Answer


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It means that he is on the way towards becoming full blown diabetic. It means that he has already developed insulin resistance, where it is that your muscles don't accept the insulin quite as well as it should, so your body would start to produce more insulin in order to keep your blood sugar normal. What would happen is that he would have for the most part normal blood sugars, but if he were to get a check as to the amount of Insulin he have it in the blood, this would be elevated. It therefore means that you're not diabetic, but without immediate treatment/lifestyle change, he would almost definitely become diabetic.Health Question & Answer

There's no such diagnosis as "slightly diabetic". As you said, he either is or he isn't.

Having said that, doctors in America do use a term pre-diabetic, which means that without controlling what they're eating and taking more exercise, then the sufferer is well on the way to developing full blown diabetes. (The 'label' of pre-diabetes tends to be put on people who have a fasting blood (plasma) glucose reading of between 111 and 125 mg/dL. At 126 mg/dL and higher a doctor would seek to confirm a diagnosis of diabetes by carrying out further tests.)

If your dad is actually diabetic, it means that he needs to watch the carbohydrate values of foods that he consumes ... and keep them relatively low, and that he must incorporate exercise into his routine in order to combat insulin resistance. (It helps your body to utilise [utilize] the glucose (sugar) in the bloodstream to make energy.)Health Question & Answer

by the sounds of it he is pre-diabetic which is on the verge of being diabetic so he starts eating heathy and exercise it soundnt progress into diabetes

here is a site for info http://www.diabetes.org/pre-diabetes.jspHealth Question & Answer

Well, if his fasting blood sugar is over 126, yes, he is diabetic. Between and including 100-126 is prediabetic.Health Question & Answer



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