An update on Diabetes: An alarming situation (original) (raw)

With its increasing prevalence around the world, diabetes is acknowledged as a serious chronic pandemic disease that affects both developing and developed economies equally and has been given the status of "public health priority" in the majority of those nations. Recent report of The Indian Council of Medical Research-India Diabetes (ICMR-INDIAB) says that 101 million people are estimated to be suffered from diabetes and 136 million people are found prediabetic. The report gives an alarm to all of us to be alert or be ready to face the results. Not only in India, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes is rising rapidly around the globe. Type 1, Type 2, Gestational diabetes and other specific types of diabetes such as LADA and MODY makes four distinct forms of the disease. People with diabetes experience fatigue, thirst, hunger, urination, nausea, vomiting and loss of body fluids. The non-functioning death of pancreatic beta cells is the root cause of diabetes. Autoimmune diseases including Addison's, Hashimoto's and Graves'develop due to this. The likelihood of developing diabetes is raised by predisposing factors like genetics, family history, environment, autoimmunity and high insulin resistance. Diagnostic tests available that can diagnose diabetes in its early and later stages. Miglitol, Metformin, Nateglinide, Pioglitazone, Glipizide, Dapagliflozin, Colestimide, Bromocriptine, etc. are the modern medicines used to treat diabetes. Insulin therapy, Stem cell therapy and islet replacement therapy are the other methods utilized also to treat diabetic patients. Due to the adverse effects of modern medicines, use of herbal medicines is recommended because of its less or no side effects and also its easy availability, along with less intake of carbohydrate, physical exercise and awareness are required. I.