NURSING 2LA2 Lecture 6: Diabetes
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Disease- problems regulating glucose levels or adh levels. Mellitus- sweet urine, super high glucose levels, water follows glucose so lots of water loss. Insipidus- tasteless urine, lack of adh, keeps you from producing urine. Di produce so much urine like so much. Head gets supply from two of the largest arteries in the torso and has anastimosis because sugar regulation is vital to life. It is also 99% involved in exocrine of a buffer for the stomach acid before entering the small intestine. Islets of langerhans have beta and alpha cells. Beta cells secrete insulin when glucose is high and when you are chillin cause you dun need suagar b. Type one- beta cells don"t provide enough insulin. If no insulin cells burn fat because glucose is not being absorbed, so fast infact that their breath will smell bad fruity fat deposits can cause atherosclerosis. Damage to the arterial walls can cause foot ulcers.
