DEFINITION:-
Diabetes mellitus, commonly known as diabetes, is a condition that impairs the body’s ability to process blood glucose, otherwise known as blood sugar. All the cells in the human body require glucose for energy and Insulin hormone for its utilization. This hormone insulin moves sugar from the blood into your cells to be stored or used for energy. With diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t effectively use the insulin it does make.
RISK FACTORS FOR TYPE 2 DM
A strong family history
Obesity
Age ≥ 45 years
Previously identified IFG or IGT
History of GDM
Hypertension (Blood pressure ≥ 140/90 mmHg)
HDL cholesterol level ≤ 35 mg/dl
Triglyceride level > 250 mg/dl
Polycystic ovarian syndrome.
CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS:-
The classic symptoms of untreated diabetes are unintended weight loss, polyuria (increased urination), polydipsia (increased thirst), and polyphagia (increased hunger). Symptoms may develop rapidly (weeks or months) in type 1 diabetes, while they usually develop much more slowly and may be subtle or absent in type 2 diabetes. Other symptoms of diabetes include weight loss and tiredness.
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR DIABETES:-
Acetic Acid:
Diabetes with copious watery urine with or without sugar, great thirst, weakness, pallor and loss of flesh.
Lac Vac. Defl:
Copious, watery urine with great thirst; also copious, dense urine. Weakness, anaemia.
Arsenicum Brom:
An excellent remedy for diabetes with constipation and thirst. Give in IX dilution three drops a dose thrice daily.
Thyroidinum:
An excellent remedy for diabetes melitus when symptoms appear with great rapidity and extreme weakness.
Acid Phos:
Diabetes in nervous patients. The urine is increased. It is of milky colour and contains much sugar. Great debility and bruised feeling in muscles. Diabetes due to grief, worry and anxiety. Sure cure for diabetes in early stages. There may be boils.
Syzygium:
It is considered to be very efficacious in diabetes and in blood sugar. Great thirst and passing of urine in large quantities. It is specific. Give in 5 to 10 drop doses of mother tincture every three hours four times daily.
Uranium Nit:
Diabetes due to defective assimilation. Digestion weak, langour, debility and much sugar in urine. Enormous appetite and thirst. It is highly praised in diabetes originating in dyspepsia. Great thirst, polyuria and dry tongue. Dryness of tongue, violent appetite even when the stomach is full.
Natrum Mur:
Diabetes in gouty persons, with dryness of skin; itch all over the body. Restless. Yawning and dejection, passing urine every hour.
Thuja:
Diabetes in patients who suffered from gonorrhoea; nervousness; sleeplessness; constipation; palpitation of heart at times; sugar in urine.
Picric Acid:
Sugar with intense thirst and copious urination at night.
Moschus:
Diabetes associated with impotency.
Taraxacum:
Diabetes with urging to urinate. Copious discharge of urine.
Arsenic Alb:
An excellent remedy but most neglected by the profession in treating diabetes. It has dry brittle scaly skin, dryness of the mouth, tongue and trachea with unquenchable thirst, loss of appetite and constipation. Burning sensation in abdomen extending to the mouth The patient dwindles down to a mere skeleton. He loses strength and sometimes his teeth. The patient is fastidious, wants his clothing neat and clean, wants everything placed in proper place.
