Do you think diabetes type 1 and type 2 should have different names?!
Question: Do you think diabetes type 1 and type 2 should have different names.?
I mean, there seems to be a lot of confusion out there. Type one requires insulin injections, type two does not (at least in the early stages). Many folks seem to be confused as to which is which.
Type one is an autoimmune disease where the beta cells in the pancreas no longer produce insulin.
Type two is insulin resistance where the body's cells ignore the signal of the insulin to allow glucose to enter the cell.
Both result in high blood sugar but, other than that, they're entirely different diseases requiring entirely different treatments.
Yes, I know that some type twos end up on insulin, but that has more to do with having been prescribed sulfonylureas, and many other variables. Many do just fine with just proper diet and exercise.Health Question & Answer
Type one is an autoimmune disease where the beta cells in the pancreas no longer produce insulin.
Type two is insulin resistance where the body's cells ignore the signal of the insulin to allow glucose to enter the cell.
Both result in high blood sugar but, other than that, they're entirely different diseases requiring entirely different treatments.
Yes, I know that some type twos end up on insulin, but that has more to do with having been prescribed sulfonylureas, and many other variables. Many do just fine with just proper diet and exercise.Health Question & Answer
Answers:
When I mention my diabetes I always mention it as "Type 1" and never just as diabetes. I do not like the term juvenile diabetes. Juveniles becomes adults and their is nothing juvenile about diabetes. Does it go away the person turns 18.? No.
Type 1 and Type 2 make sense to me. The public must be educated.Health Question & Answer
Type 1 and Type 2 make sense to me. The public must be educated.Health Question & Answer
The term "type 1 diabetes" has universally replaced several former terms, including childhood-onset diabetes, juvenile diabetes, and insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM). Likewise, the term "type 2 diabetes" has replaced several former terms, including adult-onset diabetes, obesity-related diabetes, and non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM). Beyond these two types, there is no agreed-upon standard nomenclature. Various sources have defined "type 3 diabetes" as, among others, gestational diabetes, insulin-resistant type 1 diabetes (or "double diabetes"), type 2 diabetes which has progressed to require injected insulin, and latent autoimmune diabetes of adults (or LADA or "type 1.5" diabetes.) There is also maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY) which is a group of several single gene (monogenic) disorders with strong family histories that present as type 2 diabetes before 30 years of age.Health Question & Answer
Yes...but I dont think doing that will get rid of a lot of the confusion. The word "diabetes" is used so loosely. When talking to someone else, how many people actually say "I'm a type 1 diabetic," or "I'm a type 2 diabetic".? Many of them just say "I'm diabetic." The media often does the same thing.Health Question & Answer
Good point. I like to view type 2 as too much insulin. Hence, I shudder anytime I hear about type 2 being on insulin. If you mistreat type 2, than you might become insulin dependent. Any type 2 who lets their doctor put them on insulin, should do some more research. Control your carbs, control your insulin release, control your insulin resistance, control your CHD. When will doctors learn this.?Health Question & Answer
I do.
I used to think that when someone was diagnosed with adult onset diabetes, that is was 100% their fault, that their lifestyle was the sole contributor for the disease. I now know better. So many people are being poisoned by cheap foods these days.
Stay far away from Soy, canola oil, corn, and high fructose corn syrup people!!Health Question & Answer
I used to think that when someone was diagnosed with adult onset diabetes, that is was 100% their fault, that their lifestyle was the sole contributor for the disease. I now know better. So many people are being poisoned by cheap foods these days.
Stay far away from Soy, canola oil, corn, and high fructose corn syrup people!!Health Question & Answer
Type A insulin deficient and type B insulin resistant seem to be a good option. With more and more kids being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in recent years the term "juvenile" in reference to diabetes only adds to the confusion.Health Question & Answer
Yeah I see what your saying completely, but I guess the doctors think 1 and 2 are better to identify them. I know the difference between them, I guess because I know people who have 1 or 2 type diabetes.Health Question & Answer
It would help if it was named differently. I sometimes forget which number I am. I'm the lesser of the two. LOL Which would be Type 2. O well.Health Question & Answer
no its like hepatitis A and BHealth Question & Answer
It used to be different and people kinda knew that juvenile diabetes means you have to take shots forever and that adult onset was "less severe". When they changed the names of the conditions they did it because younger people were getting adult onset and when people in their 40's (for ex.) got a condition that had a label juvenile, it confused the patients. So since juvenile diabetes can happen at any time in a person's life and younger and younger people were getting adult onset, it became type 1 and type 2. It still means the same thing but now the names are less descriptive. I say now that we have different names we should focus on educating people on what the heck they are and and leave it. Changing them again will only further confuse. Unless they go back to the old names that people still seem to understand.Health Question & Answer
yah like type 1 shud gary and type 2 shud be joeHealth Question & Answer