Need stressed to give informative education on disease: World Diabetes Day observed

The World Diabetes Day was observed on Thursday across world including Pakistan with its theme "Diabetes, Education, and Prevention" for the period 2009-2013. The day aims to change education world-wide so that it provides the information that people need in order to live with the condition and treat the disease carefully.
World Diabetes Day is the primary global awareness campaign, which was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in response to the alarming rise of diabetes around the world. Diabetes affects blood glucose levels. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose or sugar for our bodies to use for energy.
The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies. In diabetic condition, the body either does not make enough insulin or can not use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugars to build up increasing the blood glucose level and disturb the metabolic functions of vital organs in the body. If left untreated, diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and lower-extremity amputations.
Moreover, there are different types of diabetes ie Type 1, type 2 and gestational diabetes mellitus: 1. Type one is insulin - dependent, meaning that sufferers have to inject the insulin hormone into their bodies in order to produce what the body can not produced, 2. Type two is not insulin dependent, but does mean that you are likely to have high blood pressure and a decreased amount of insulin produced in the body,
3. Gestational diabetes sometimes occurs in pregnant women when the body is unable to produce enough insulin needed to get them through their pregnancy. Education is particularly important as diabetes can affect all aspects of life. The disease is life-long and requires many lifestyle adjustments to be made; diet, exercise and medication all needs to be monitored and altered.
In order to make the right decisions about behaviour when managing and living with diabetes, the sufferers need to be correctly informed about the implications. Those with risk factors such as obesity, glucose intolerance, lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet needed to look out for warning signs including tiredness, weight loss, increased thirst, blurred vision and lack of concentration and should visit the doctor as early as possible.