Diabetes Mellitus Case Study

Diabetes Mellitus: There are many ways to go about diagnosing this disease. Basically what diabetes mellitus is, is the result of hyperglycemia due to ineffective insulin secretion or insulin action. (American Diabetes Association, 2014) It comes in the form of Type 1, and Type 2. Type 1 diabetes being and auto-immune, or heredity, whereas Type 2 diabetes, you can actually develop throughout your childhood into adulthood, just by simply being obese. You can look at color, turbidity, measure glucose and ketones in the urine, but there’s just so much more than that. If you want to get and accurate diagnosis, you should probably turn to the A1C testing. A1C tests are done after a fasting, through a blood draw. Patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, and a high triglyceride reading would be the ones you’d want to screen to check and see if there could be a clinical diagnosis made. Many symptoms that you would have with diabetes mellitus would include but are not limited to: obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, nerve pain, chronic need to relieve urine, failure of certain organs,

With Diabetes Insipidus the body cannot respond well to, or store a hormone properly. That hormone would be antidiuretic hormone, more commonly known as ADH. With Diabetes Insipidus, you can experience most of the same symptoms of Diabetes Mellitus. With unquenchable thirst, and high output of diluted urine, polyuria, producing anywhere from 2 liters daily to about 20. Which compared to the 1.5-2 liters daily in a patient without Diabetes Insipidus, is pretty high. Although this disease is mainly heredity according to Mayo Clinic, there are other ways such as being pregnant, that could disturb our natural balance, and bestow this disease upon us. Certain test, such as a water deprivation, MRI’s, and urinalysis could be done for a clinical diagnosis of this