How many times a year should you be tested if you do not have diabetes?

 How many times a year should you be tested if you do not have diabetes?

Pretty good question. If you do not have diabetes, why do the test? Do you have more money? But science says different things.

For healthy people, blood sugar tests are usually recommended ** every three years or so **. If you have prediabetes, it is recommended to have your blood sugar tested at least once a year.

Diabetes is a hereditary disease, which means it is more likely to affect children. Diabetes can be inherited from mother or father.

If you have a mother, father, sister or brother with diabetes, you are more likely to have your own diabetes. Genetics and lifestyle play a role in this.

"We know that if both parents have type 2 diabetes, you and your siblings have an almost 50 percent risk of passing genes.

The difference between type 1 and 2 is that in type 1 your pancreas does not produce enough insulin - a hormone that regulates the movement of sugar in cells - and cells respond poorly to insulin and receive less sugar.

Type 2 diabetes develops when the pancreas produces less insulin than the body needs and the body's cells stop responding to insulin. Do not take such sugar. Sugar accumulates in your blood. When cells do not respond to insulin, it is called insulin resistance.

Type 2 diabetes was known as adult-onset diabetes, but type 1 and type 2 diabetes can also begin in childhood and adulthood.

However, there is no diabetes gene that can turn on or off someone with type 1 diabetes. It is not uncommon for siblings to have type 1 diabetes. The first-degree relatives of a person with type 1 also have a 5 percent chance of developing the disease. Although type 1 diabetes can occur at any age, it can occur in two significant ways at two different times. The first T occurs in children aged 4 to 7 years and the second occurs in children aged 10 to 14 years.

Instead, a set of genes has a role to play in preventing diabetes, including a dozen or more genes. The biggest thing: the HLA gene. They make proteins that work to keep your immune system healthy to prevent diabetes.

Diabetes cannot be ruled out as soon as blood sugar rises. Sugar can also increase due to many diseases.

However, for those who do not have diabetes but have the following symptoms, the advice is to get tested once every three years.

Symptoms of diabetes:

1. Lots of urine, which is often at night.

2. To be very thirsty.

3. Lose weight without trying.

4. Being very hungry.

5. Blurred vision.

6. Feeling numb or tingling in the hands or feet.

7. Feeling very tired.

8. Very dry skin.