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@diwana

Good post.

Diabetes mellitus has two types. Type 1 and 2.

Diabetes Insipidus should not be mistaken as same as Diabetes Mellitus type 2. by someone reading this.

In fact diabetes insipidus is whole different disease and nothing to do with diabetes mellitus.

**The word “diabetes” is borrowed from the Greek word meaning “a siphon.”
The 2nd-century A.D. Greek physician, Aretus the Cappadocian, named the condition “diabetes.” He explained that patients with it had polyuria and “passed water like a siphon.”
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Since both very different diseases diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus cause someone to urinate a lot, they both are called “diabetes”.

For diabetes mellitus new cutoff for definition is 110mg/dl whole blood glucose and 126 mg/dl plasma glucose on fasting at least 8 hours. Not even smoking.

You explained well :k:

I remember my professor telling me that how Greeks actually found out that there is a sugar in the urine, since they didnt have extra ordinary labs like today.

He told us, that once this scientist saw bunch of ants around the water-like liquid. He tested and it turned out the liquid was sweet b/c water don’t attract water unless its sweet. lol it was funny but yet amazing how they discovered it.