DIABETES MELLITIS – Why is it called this?
Posted in Types on 29. Mar, 2010
Why is diabetes called diabetes mellitis?
What causes diabetic neuropathy, nephropathy and retinopathy?
How does metformin or any other diabetic drugs work?
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Can’t answer your other questions, but…
“Diabetes” means “to pass through urine.” The most common subset of diabetes is diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes mellitus is called that because of the amount of glucose in your urine–you can’t uptake the excess glucose in your blood, so you have “sweet” urine. “Mellitus” means “honey” in…Greek? So it’s like they’re saying honey passes through your urine…there is too much sugar in your pee.
There is another type of glucose, where you just pee a lot of dilute urine; it’s called diabetes insipidus.
diabetes insipidus is NOT “another type of glucose”,
answers to your questions are easy enough to find if you google for them and you will learn more that way,