Diabetes

[cathy00012345]

I know that the symptoms for diabetes are excessive urination, incressed thirst, tirednees, weight loss etc, but i don't know why each of these symptoms occur. Is it because the glucose is not being taken up by the cells?

[victor]

what kind of diabetes did you mean?? is it diabetes type I, diabetes type II or diabetes insipidus??

[Poison]

I know that the symptoms for diabetes are excessive urination, incressed thirst, tirednees, weight loss etc, but i don't know why each of these symptoms occur. Is it because the glucose is not being taken up by the cells?

Basically yes. Normally you don't have glucose in your urine, but diabetic people have. That's why patients need a lot of water (therefore needs to urinate more often) to excrete excess glucose from the body (you know glucose should be dissolved in water, you can not get rid of them in crystal form ). Diabetic people loose weight because, cells don't have glucose to use, therefore they start to use lipids.

PS: There are many factors that can lead to diabetes. I mean, in some diabetics, pancreas secretes normally, but some organs have problem about getting it.

[beluga fiction]

Cells must have insulin to use glucose, maybe that is the major cause