How do people get type 1 diabetes

i was watching Nicholas Jonas and his mom on FOX and Friends.
And I am just curious how do people get Type 1 diabetes?

and what happens when people get it?

They are born with it. It can show up quickly after birth or as late as in someone's twenties. Basically you just have to count how many carbs you eat and inject yourself with insulin (unless you are using the pump). I've had diabetes for 10 years and almost no one at my school knows I have it because it's not that big of a deal. Some of these people say you can't eat whatever you want but that's not true. Type 1 diabetics can eat as much as they want and whatever they want as long as they take insulin. Obviously it's not smart to drink 10 cans of pop everyday since no one wants to take that many shots. Nick Jonas is fine so no worries.

Your are born with Type 1 Diabetes. It is a failure of the pancreas. It is not contagious. Most people don't know they have it until they are in their childhood.

When you have diabetes your body doesn't use GLUCOSE. Glucose is a sugar, and it is need as fuel for your body to work and play, Glucse comes from the food you eat, goes into you blood, and the blood carried it to the rest of your body. ALL food makes glucose in your body -- not just candy and soda pop and desserts.

But your body needs another chemical, called INSULIN, that lets the glucose go out of the blood and into the cells. Insulin is made by your pancreas, an internal organ that sets near your stomach.

If you have diabets, you pancreas does not make enough insulin, so you body can't use the glucose, Since your body can't use the fuel, you feel very tired. Since your brain also needs fuel to think, the lack of insulin makes you think slow, too.

And since you can't use that glucsoe, you body thinks its hungry all the time, and especially thirsty. So you still eat and drink, putting more sugar into your body, so it builds up in your blood.

When sugar builds up in your blood, at attaches to the red blood cells like little knives. As the blood goes through your body, those sugar "knives" damage the blood vessels, especially in your kidneys and eyeballs.

This also causes sores to heal slower, and to get infected. Sometimes, a sore will get infects and doctors have to cut off (amputate) fingers and toes ---even your whole foot.

There are some other chemicals there too. These chemicals attach to your nerves, and make them die. When your nerves dies your hands and feets get tingly and even numb. Your skin crawls and itches. Sometimes those nerves effect your stomach and intestines, and you have diarreah or constipation.

Diabetes cannot be cured. You can TREAT it by taking insulin shots, but you have to do this for every meal every day for the rest of your life. And you MUSt be very careful about what you eat. The diabetioc cannot eat candies and cokes and desserts, becasue that's too much sugar. But IF you do exactly what the doctor says, all those bad things that could happen don't happen!

Thre is also a Type 2 Diabetes, which you can get when you are an adult. This is usuually cause by being overweight, and not eating good, healthy food. Most people can treat it by changing their diet to healthy foods, and getting more exercise, but some need to take insulin shots just like the Type 1.

It is an autoimmune disease, as was said earlier. Your t-cells attack the b-cells in your pancrease, slowing then ceasing insulin production.

And I wanted to correct some myths in this answer thread.
1-It is extremely rare for a person to be BORN with diabetes. While there may be a mutation in one's DNA that makes one more prone to developing diabetes, they usually do not have it from the get go.

2-The pancrease is not "dead". The pancrease also serves other functions, such as de-acidifying the stomach acid in your food as it passes from the stomach to the intestines. You would be in horrible pain if your pancrease was truely dead.

Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and it could be hereditary. What happens is the beta-cells in your pancreas become damaged and is unable to produce insulin, which converts sugar into glycogen (energy storage). Unfortunately, with type 1 diabetes, you need to inject exogenous insulins for a lifetime.

its a disease where ur body doesnt produce enough insulin which is a chemical that breaks down sugar from your food
u cant just get it its genetic which means your born with it

the only diabetes you can get is type 2 which is from eating to much sugar so you dont have enough insulin to break it down
this normally happens in extremely fat people

diabetes is treatable buy using artifical insulin
and if not treated it can lead to blindness, lack of blood flow leading to the lose of limbs (they have to cut off your feet sometimes)
but dont worry enless ur super fat right now u dont have it

No one is sure how we get it, but what happens is, your pancreas is basically dead, it does not produce insulin which keeps you alive, so you need to inject it.

type 1 diabetes is heraditary which means you get passed down to you from your mom, dad, or both