while diabetes is a serious condition
people living with it can still lead
healthy and happy lives hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton welcome to watchmojo.com we sent
our host tiffany to a local diabetes
awareness event where she learned more
about the illness from an expert and two
kids living with it every day so and
what is type 1 diabetes type 1 diabetes
is characterized by the fact that your
pancreas has stopped producing insulin
there’s nothing you can do to prevent it
it’s just going to happen if it’s bound
to happen it’s happening whether you’re
overweight or if you’re thin active
inactive old young it’s gonna happen but
if you are a type 2 it’s in your
genetics it’s in your family it’s
related to your weight especially if you
have it around your belly what are the
symptoms when one has diabetes in type
ones the beginning is very violent in a
way that is very sudden it’s very it’s
all there you have no more insulin so
your body just can’t cope so you’re very
ill right away suddenly whereas a person
who has type two it’s a sneaky start
it’s like a snake in the grass the sugar
the pancreas is slow it’s not making the
insulin properly at the right time the
right amount so your blood sugars are
creeping up slowly and your body gets
used to it so you just feeling what more
tired and no more you know grumpy and
you know you just think it’s your age or
you think it’s you’re just depressed or
something seasonal and really you have
diabetes and that’s very serious Kevin
Maria what is diabetes diabetes is a
disease that affects your life but you
have to learn to live with it you have
to take needles every day an insulin to
keep your life our pancreas doesn’t
produce insulin like let’s say yours
would so each day we have to keep our
blood Sugar’s at a normal level with
control of insulin diet and exercise can
you tell me then what were the symptoms
that made you realize that you’re a
diabetic I was waking up in the middle
of night I was very thirsty I was
frequently going to the washroom the
same symptoms as him I was often thirsty
I was always rushing to the bathroom
and then my parents found something
funny also and brought me straight to
the hospital and that’s when I was
diagnosed how does that change your life
when I was first diagnosed I felt that
when I went to school with diabetes my
friends saw me testing a blood sugar
they felt they look to me like I was
weird like I was a monster or something
but then everybody adjusts to it and
your family just learns to deal with it
and go on in life you have to be more
conscious of your blood sugars and
things like that you need to test more
often and take insulin does that mean
that you have to make a lot of changes
in your life well I was always an active
kid I always loved doing sports and
running and biking and all that so I
just had to adjust to it I have to check
my sugar more often now and just keep a
juice on me and basically I can do
everything or you always want to thank
you guys thank you very much thank you
people living with it can still lead
healthy and happy lives hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton welcome to watchmojo.com we sent
our host tiffany to a local diabetes
awareness event where she learned more
about the illness from an expert and two
kids living with it every day so and
what is type 1 diabetes type 1 diabetes
is characterized by the fact that your
pancreas has stopped producing insulin
there’s nothing you can do to prevent it
it’s just going to happen if it’s bound
to happen it’s happening whether you’re
overweight or if you’re thin active
inactive old young it’s gonna happen but
if you are a type 2 it’s in your
genetics it’s in your family it’s
related to your weight especially if you
have it around your belly what are the
symptoms when one has diabetes in type
ones the beginning is very violent in a
way that is very sudden it’s very it’s
all there you have no more insulin so
your body just can’t cope so you’re very
ill right away suddenly whereas a person
who has type two it’s a sneaky start
it’s like a snake in the grass the sugar
the pancreas is slow it’s not making the
insulin properly at the right time the
right amount so your blood sugars are
creeping up slowly and your body gets
used to it so you just feeling what more
tired and no more you know grumpy and
you know you just think it’s your age or
you think it’s you’re just depressed or
something seasonal and really you have
diabetes and that’s very serious Kevin
Maria what is diabetes diabetes is a
disease that affects your life but you
have to learn to live with it you have
to take needles every day an insulin to
keep your life our pancreas doesn’t
produce insulin like let’s say yours
would so each day we have to keep our
blood Sugar’s at a normal level with
control of insulin diet and exercise can
you tell me then what were the symptoms
that made you realize that you’re a
diabetic I was waking up in the middle
of night I was very thirsty I was
frequently going to the washroom the
same symptoms as him I was often thirsty
I was always rushing to the bathroom
and then my parents found something
funny also and brought me straight to
the hospital and that’s when I was
diagnosed how does that change your life
when I was first diagnosed I felt that
when I went to school with diabetes my
friends saw me testing a blood sugar
they felt they look to me like I was
weird like I was a monster or something
but then everybody adjusts to it and
your family just learns to deal with it
and go on in life you have to be more
conscious of your blood sugars and
things like that you need to test more
often and take insulin does that mean
that you have to make a lot of changes
in your life well I was always an active
kid I always loved doing sports and
running and biking and all that so I
just had to adjust to it I have to check
my sugar more often now and just keep a
juice on me and basically I can do
everything or you always want to thank
you guys thank you very much thank you
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