Diabetes: Core
Type 1 vs type 2, insulin and its curves, and the emergencies — hypoglycaemia and DKA.
Diabetes: Type 1 vs Type 2, and What Treatment Is Trying to Do
Diabetes is really two different diseases that share one number. In type 1 the body has no insulin; in type 2 it has plenty but has stopped listening to it. That single distinction decides everything — which drugs work, why type 1 always needs insulin, and why type 2 has a dozen drug classes to choose from. Get the difference clear, and the entire diabetes toolkit organises itself.
Insulin: Types, Curves, and How Regimens Are Built
There is only one insulin hormone, but a whole family of insulin drugs — and they differ in one thing: timing. Some act within minutes and vanish; others trickle steadily for a whole day. Once you can read the action curves, the way doctors build an insulin regimen stops being a mystery and becomes a simple matter of covering meals and covering the background.
Diabetic Emergencies: Hypoglycaemia and DKA
Diabetes has two emergencies that pull in opposite directions. One is glucose crashing too low — fast, frightening, and reversible in minutes with sugar. The other is glucose soaring while the body drowns in acid — slower to build but deadly if missed. Knowing how to recognise each, and the one first move that treats it, is genuinely life-saving knowledge.
