Diabetes is a common disease that happens to people when his or her body is malfunctioning when it comes to creating insulin. Insulin plays an important factor in changing carbohydrates into energy.

Diabetes creates a disturbance in the normal function of the body thus if untreated can cause complications and much severe disease.

The medicine world has a lot of mysteries that may need more explanation and one of them involves diabetes and children. According to the recent survey, 90% of children under the age of 16 are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Also type 2 diabetes cases in children are also increasing in number as well.

Type 1 is a kind of diabetes characterized by the inability of pancreas when it comes to producing insulin. This is responsible for breaking down glucose in the blood.

Type 2 diabetes disease is the result of the body’s failure to produce insulin. Insulin is very important in the blood to be transformed to energy. Unfortunately there is still no cure for type 2 diabetes and also the cause of this disease is still unknown.

Genes, environment, lifestyle, insulin level, glucose production and defective secretion in the intestine are some causes of that might lead to type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes Mellitus or Diabetes for short is a disease that is described by high levels of blood sugar caused by the lack of insulin. There are two types of diabetes – type 1 and type 2.

These two have similar signs and symptoms when it comes to detection. In both cases, there is a significant amount of glucose or sugar in the blood but not enough cells to compensate.