Diabetes and Nursing Care

Diabetes

Diabetes Mellitus is a term which defined as a metabolic disorder of various aetiology categorized by chronic hyperglycaemia with conflicts of carbohydrate, protein, and fat metabolism causing from defects in insulin secretion, insulin action, or both.

Diabetes effect includes long– term damage, dysfunction and failure of numerous organs. It may present with specific symptoms such as thirst, blurring of vision, polyuria, and weight loss. In its utmost simple forms, ketoacidosis or a non–ketotic hyperosmolar state may grow and lead to stupor, coma, and in lack of effective treatment, death. Frequently indications are not simple, or maybe absent, and consequently, hyperglycaemia abundant to cause pathological and functional variations may be existing for a long time before the diagnosis is prepared.