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Controlling blood sugar levels - Coggle Diagram
Controlling blood sugar levels
Insulin
Made in the pancreas - a small pink organ found under the stomach
Travels around body in blood
Lowers blood sugar levels
Makes cells take up glucose - so blood sugar levels drop
Glucose in muscles + liver converted into glycogen
Glucagon
Secreted by pancreas
When blood glucose gets low
Glucagon stored in liver is converted back into glucose and released back into blood
Increases blood sugar levels
Type 2 diabetes
The pancreas still makes insulin (although might not be enough) and the body cells stop responding properly to insulin
Causes
Obesity
Lack of exercise
Genetic
Treating
Eat a balanced diet
Lose weight
Regular excercise
Important to treat before the pancreas dies
If exercise, balanced diet and losing weight doesn't work, drugs can be used that...
Help insulin work better on cells
Help pancreas make more insulin
Reduce amount of glucose absorbed by gut
Pancreas keeps blood sugar levels fairly constant by using 2 hormones; insulin and glucogon
Type 1 diabetes
Causes
Genetic
Viruses
Curing
Pancreas transplant
Difficult and risky
Only a few hundred take place a year
Not enough donors for the amount of people with diabetes type 1
Treatment
Injections of insulin given before a meal
Allows glucose to be taken into body cells and used to keep blood sugar levels constant
Extra sugar is taken if blood sugar levels are low
Symptoms
Loss of weight - fat and protein used for fuel instead of glucose
Lack energy and feel tired - glucose cant get into cells
Lots of urine and feel thirsty all the time
When your pancreas can't make enough or any insulin