Circulatory System-Odd Facts

By Jazz

What Odd Facts will be presented?I will be mainly talking about the following:

• Diabetes

• Lice

• Gangrene

• Sickle Cell Anemia

GangreneGangrene is a disease caused by an inadequate amount of blood supply and a considerable mass of body tissue dies.

Long-term tobacco smoking and diabetes increase the possibility of suffering gangrene. This condition is most common in lower extremities.

There are 2 common types of gangrene: wet and dry gangrene.

Head Lice Infestation(Pediculosis)

Head lice are spread by personal contact or the sharing of combs, brushes, caps, and other clothing

What are the symptoms when you have lice?

Intense itching

Tickling feelings by movement of hair

Lice on hair, clothing and scalp.

Small, red bumps on the scalp, neck and shoulders.

Diabetes- Intro

• Diabetes are caused either by too little insulin, resistance to insulin, or both.

Diabetes Slide Show

Diabetes- Type 1 “ Juvenile Onset”Type 1 Diabetes ( T1D)Type 1 of Diabetes is caused because the body no longer produces insulin. • This usually happens : adulthood, teenage years, before the 40s.• 10% of all people who have diabetes are in Type 1.• People with Type 1 need to take injections for the rest of their life.

What is insulin?Insulin is a hormone produced by the Pancreas to control blood sugar ( glucose)

Diabetes – Type 2 “ Adult Onset”

Type 2 Diabetes ( T2D)Type 2 is most common among the two types• Too much blood – sugar ( glucose).• Causes obesity

Sickle Cell AnemiaSickle Cell Anemia is a disease passed down through the families in which red blood cells are formed in an abnormal sickle or crescent shape. Red blood cells carry oxygen to the body and are normally shaped like a disc.