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Adult Onset Diabetes, or sometimes called Type 2 diabetes, is a disease that results from too much consumption of high-calorie meals accompanied with an unhealthful, and more importantly, inactive lifestyle. This type of diabetes is mostly diagnosed on adults (hence, the name) and is also the most commonly diagnosed form of diabetes, taking almost 95% of all the reported cases of diabetes.

Like all forms of diabetes, its symptoms include excessive hunger, excessive thirst, blurring of eyesight, and abnormally frequent need to urinate, with the addition of the slow healing of wounds, leg pains, itchiness of the skin, and yeast infections.

The complications associated with adult onset diabetes include blindness, heart diseases, stroke, erectile dysfunction, and a chronic disability of a limb, which may result to an amputation if not treated early.

If a patient is diagnosed of having Type 2 or adult onset diabetes, he is initially instructed to follow a carefully-planned diet designed to lower the concentration of glucose in his blood and he is also instructed to keep track of his blood sugar level. If the glucose concentration in his blood did not decrease even after faithfully following the diet plan, he is then treated with hypoglycemic drugs. The function of these drugs is to stimulate the pancreas’ production of insulin which utilizes the glucose in the body. If the hypoglycemic drugs still did not work, the patient is then regularly injected by insulin.

Although, the treatment of adult onset diabetes is simple, it is clear that if the disease is not diagnosed early and thereby, delaying its treatment, the complications that results from it could be devastating and their treatment, very costly. So, the most commonly recited healthcare mantra, that is, “prevention is better than cure,” should always be followed by having a healthful diet and an active lifestyle.