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Is Surgery The Treatment To Diabetes? |
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Julia Hanf |
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Is Surgery the Treatment to Diabetes?
Julia Hanf
Diabetes develops when the body is not able to produce insulin the right way. Hence, there may be too little insulin in the body to regulate the blood sugar level or if the insulin is in the body, it might not have been used effectively thereby leading to diabetes. These two cases fall under two types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes may occur when there is no or too little insulin in the body that is the first case and type 2 diabetes may occur when the insulin of the body is not used effectively as in second case. Diabetes is taking the shape of grave disease with change in time. Near about to seven percentage of population in United States currently suffers from the disease. Most of these cases lie under type 2 diabetes.
The foremost treatment given to diabetics includes a healthy and nutritious diet, followed by exercising. The blood glucose level in the body is regulated by a well-balanced diet and exercising. Exercising helps to maintain and lower the body weight, thereby helping to control the disease. Going further, the other factors like insulin shots and other medications come into play.
Weight-loss surgery is a very effective way of Diabetes treatment. People who suffer from Type 2 diabetics are more likely to respond to weight loss surgery rather than other modes of treatment. There are two categories of Weight loss surgery- gastric-bypass and lap-band surgery. It is said that diabetes patients respond fast to weight-loss surgery while it takes more time for their body to respond to any other mode of treatment. Initially, Gastric-bypass surgery was considered to be more fruitful than the lap-band surgery because there were some changes in the hormones in the body while doing the lap-band surgery.
But fortunately, the surgeons proved wrong and the lap-band surgery also brought about the same changes as gastric-bypass surgery without any complications and side-effects. Both the methods of weight loss surgery follow different ways to operate. Under lap-band method, a silicone band is tied around the upper area of the stomach thereby bounding eating. While under Gastric-bypass surgery, the stomach is divided into two smaller and larger portions, the upper pouch and the lower pouch thereby rearranging the small intestine.
Almost 84 percent of the Type 2 diabetes patients in United States are given the gastric-bypass surgery treatment. The ratio of the death-rate of the patients undergoing Gastric-bypass surgery is 1 in 200 while the ratio of the death-rate of the patients undergoing Gastric-bypass surgery is 1 in 2000. Lap-band surgery has less side-effects in comparison to the Gastric-bypass surgery and is more safer than the Gastric-bypass surgery as the gall bladder is completely removed from the body in case of gastric-band surgery.
Normally, diabetics prefer to go for Insulin shots and other oral medications. It is not obvious that a well-balanced diet and exercising will bring the required results. The lap-band surgery eliminates the need of Insulin shots, oral medications, exercising and dieting. Obese people, having mass index above 40, people with high fat and cholesterol, hypertension and Type II diabetes, can respond fast to lap-band surgery rather than other modes of treatment. Reducing weight helps diabetics control the disease more effectively. All the above mentioned methods of treatment are beneficial to almost 76% of type 2 diabetes patients.
Scientists are finding the reason for obesity being the major cause of diabetes, and the reason for weight loss being the major treatment in controlling diabetes. Insulin's reaction in the body is stimulated by excess fat and cholesterol in the body. Tests are also being done to identify the role of fatty acids in the blood and the hormones produced by fat in the body that regulate Insulin.
Julia Hanf author of the book How To Play the Diabetes Diet Game and Win Through a real life crisis Julia figured out how to live diabetes free. Visit http://www.yourdiabetescure.com and learn more about your solution for diabetes.
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