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Diabetes is a dangerous disease that result in too much sugar in the blood. This disease is a killer if not taken care of.
My mom is a diabetic patient that got hers from the gene. She has siblings who has got this diseases, 2 out of 7 had died from this wicked disease. We still manages my mom's, their drugs are so on the high and most times I am not able to buy due to money.
My mom does her check up every morning before meal. Her meal is quite separate from the regular. Each time she eats the regular because sometimes I might not meet up in getting her meals, her blood sugar might skyrocket or her body system changes.
This disease is so deadly that it doesn't allow someone enjoy the normal life. You have to live on drugs, live all your life on diet and check up. Sometimes I wish my mom could wake up one morning to announce that this disease is no longer there.
Diabetes has over time damaged blood vessels in the heart and kidney of people with this chronic disease. They have a higher risk of health problems like; heart attack, kidney failure, and stroke. Even the eye can be lost because of this disease.
Since my mom is type 1 diabetes, I try as much as I can in managing this disease to avoid all these risk factors. I think all these risk factors sets in when diabetes is not properly managed.
I think since type 2 diabetes and prediabetes may be prevented,raising an awareness can educate people on how to reduce the risk and possible chances of getting this disease.
Creating an awareness would help save lives. A lot of people are ignorant of so many things like this, I even hear some person speak ill of this disease without knowing how it can be developed. This awareness can help open the eyes of many who thinks diabetes can only be gotten from gene.
Diabetes has destroyed a lot of homes, it has stolen joy and happiness away from people. If I had know the things I know now about this disease, my aunt wouldn't have died, I think we would have managed her till date.
In Nigeria, 80% of our food is sugar. We consume sugar in our everyday meal and the regular consumption of these meal daily, generates to this disease and would kill faster.
Creating an awareness would help teach people how they should eat less sugar and live healthy. I take caution when I eat everyday.
Thank you @crisvera for hosting this contest. At least this serves as an awareness.
