Diabetic mastopathy is a benign (non-cancerous) condition in which fibrous lumps develop in a diabetes patient’s breast. The lumps are normally hard, painless and irregularly shaped. Symptoms may include hard, irregular, easily movable, discrete, painless breast mass. Diabetic mastopathy is more prevalent among women with long-standing type 1 diabetes. It is also more common in women who have micro vascular (small blood vessel). In addition, diabetic mastopathy may affect women with type 2 diabetes or other forms of diabetes. Read the rest of this entry →

Diabetic mastopathy is an uncommon fibrous breast condition that sometimes occurs in patients who have had diabetes for a long time. Hard, benign (non-cancerous) lumps may appear in one breast or both breasts. Diabetic mastopathy usually affects women with type 1 diabetes. It is also more common in women who have micro vascular (small blood vessel). The condition has also been observed in women with type 2 diabetes or other forms of diabetes and in women with other endocrine diseases, particularly thyroid diseases.

Diabetic mastopathy is characterized by hard, irregularly shaped, painless lumps that appear in one or both breasts. The lumps are easily moveable and are not affixed to the skin. Lumps may appear in one breast or both breasts. Read the rest of this entry →

It’s true that, Diabetes causes hair loss. How does it does so is very simple: It causes poor blood circulation, due to which there’s a major effect on hair growth along with many other body functions.

Basically due to the poor blood circulation, the ability of hair follicles to operate normally get lower and lower. In normal circumstances, human hair grows for 2-6 years; then it goes into a period of dormancy, and eventually it dies and falls out as a new strand is produced in the follicle to push it out. Due to low poor blood circulation, the follicle doesn’t produce a new strand as normal, the old strand dies and falls out, and there is no replacement for it.

Also, the strands tend to die and fall out more quickly when blood circulation is poor, so more hair fall is obvious, with no chances of replacement.

American Diabetes Association defines the four major types of diabetes as follows:
Type 1 diabetes
Results from the body’s failure to produce insulin, the hormone that “unlocks” the cells of the body, allowing glucose to enter and fuel them. It is estimated that 5-10% of Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 1 diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes
Results from insulin resistance (a condition in which the body fails to properly use insulin), combined with relative insulin deficiency. Most Americans who are diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.

Gestational diabetes
Immediately after pregnancy, 5% to 10% of women with gestational diabetes are found to have diabetes, usually, type 2.

Pre-diabetes
Pre-diabetes is a condition that occurs when a person’s blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. There are 57 million Americans who have pre-diabetes, in addition to the 23.6 million with diabetes.