Clarify Diabetes

Clarify Diabetes                                                                                                                                                                         

Dear Doctor,

I happened to come across your column at a friend's place with whom I am staying presently and I want to say I like the way you advice and re-assure those who write you with their problems.This has encouraged me to write to you. I would like to know if it is possible for someone like me whose parents are not diabetic to have diabetes .Is it possible for a young boy like me who is twenty-one years to have diabetes just like that? What are the symptoms of diabetes? Does it make the male organ small and weak? Why I am asking this is because sometime ago I noticed that after I urinate, some whitish liquid comes out and it draws like okro though it's not quite as thick. It is clear and whitish and doesn't smell badly or cause pain . I thought I had STD at first but I was surprised because I have never slept with any woman before and I don’t masturbate. Last month I summoned courage and went to the hospital and to my greatest surprise I was told that it was semen escaping from my reproductive organs.Now one of my friends has told me that this is a sign of diabetes. Is it true? I am afraid because I know I take a lot of sweet things. Another one of my friends told me that this condition is caused by smallness of my organ. He further advised me to start having sex otherwise it would start growing smaller. Dear doctor, how do I stop this problem? It has been embarrassing me and it sometimes stains my trousers . Do I go for a diabetes test? Likewise is it really true that lack of sex on reaching maturity causes the male organ to remain small? How do I enlarge my organ? Is it through starting to have sex frequently?I thought of going to one of these places advertised frequently but I was held back because I know that some of them are quacks and I don’t know if such enlargement would leave me impotent .

Sir , I would be glad to receive your advice .

Yours sincerely

Waleed Bibilari, Oyo

Dear Waleed,

Diabetes does not of necessity pass from parents to children-- its inheritance pattern is not so direct--that is even when parents have the disease. Yes diabetes runs in families but there are environmental determinants that can trigger its manifestation even when the genetic disposition is not there. So diabetes can just arise out of "nowhere"--yes. Diabetes does not the cause any of the things you have(although it can cause low libido--disinterest in sex as well as erectile dysfunction or impotence). You say you've not had sex before but what about necking and other such things including genital or oral contact? They are significant in these cases, you know. Do your test but let a doctor order it and it should prove that you don’t have diabetes. Diabetes is not always inherited. It can arise from nowhere. It's major symptoms are frequency of urination, overmuch thirst, tingling sensations in the feet and hands, frequent infections like boils, furuncles and carbuncles, slow healing ulcers, or cuts or wounds, blurred vision, always tired or just no symptom at all.For those with no symptom like you but who want to find out if they could have or be prone to the disease the laboratory may find they have what we call an impaired glucose tolerance when and if they do the test of their glucose tolerance. This your okro like discharge is a sign; not of diabetes but of chronic prostatitis –a disease that is usually a complication; not of an STD(it can be) but of UTI (urinary tract infection) which any one can have whether they sex or not. The genitals, you see, perform three functions: recreation, urination and procreation (reproduction). Now, chronic prostatitis is a very insidious disease and because the prostate is an organ through which all these three functions of the genitals pass, it could cause problems in all the three-- that is the cause of your problem and not diabetes. Anyone who, as a male, discharges any stuff without sexual arousal has chronic prostatitis-full stop. Most young men your age feel that they must have a horse size organ to be men. Not so. It is not quantity in this matter but quality that women consciously or unconsciously look for. If you have a king size organ and lack technique your sex would not be able to satisfy a woman-- never forget that.Also never forget that it is indiscriminate sex that causes problems(HIV,STD,AIDS ), not diabetes. Again, remember that diabetes does not cause these problems that you ask about. Your friend will push you into indiscriminate sex and that's where the trouble will come from; Okay? So beware.Small organs are not the cause of discharge, diabetes or anything; Okay? Don't buy that notion.It is un-educated; illiterate. Full stop.Diabetes is a disease caused by the body's inability to handle sugar /carbohydrates properly because insulin is deficient or not working. It does not mean that sweet things cause diabetes--else ask the people of Western cultures who would have been suffering an epidemic of diabetes on account of their liking for sweets at almost every meal--dessert, iced cream, jelly, syrup etc. A correct, balanced and nutritious diet as well as exercise and weight control are the things that help prevent diabetes.

Cheers