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7. A person with diabetes cannot regulate their blood sugar,
es cannot regulate their blood sugar mainly because the pancreas does not release
enough insulin. To treat the disease, a person must monitor their blood suga
must take an injection of insulin. How do you think they would need to treat low
ust monitor their blood sugar, if their blood sugar is high, they
hink they would need to treat low blood sugar?

Answer 1

• Blood sugar regulation in a diabetic patient is done by

1. Injecting prescribed quantity of hormone insulin after definite time intervals.
2. Consuming prescribed amount of sugars.
3. Injecting glucagon to maintain blood sugar level if alpha cells of the pancreas are also non-functional.

Step-by-step explanation:

• The concentration of sugar in the blood is regulated by the hormone, insulin, produced in the pancreatic beta cells in normal person and injected from outside in a diabetic person.
• When the concentration of glucose in the blood is high, the insulin signals the hepatocytes to express their glucose transporters to take up the excess glucose from blood and convert them to glycogen.
• When concentration of sugar in the blood is low, another hormone called glucagon, released from the alpha cells of the pancreas, signals the liver to carry out glycogenolysis (breakdown of glycogen to glucose) and release the glucose into the blood. This would maintain the glucose level in the blood.
• In a diabetic patient, usually the beta cells of the pancreas are affected but not the alpha cells, so the glycogenolysis can occur in the body spontaneously.
• But excess injection of insulin should also be avoided as that can cause the blood sugar level to come down below normal.