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Diabetes in Cats, also known as Diabetes mellitus or sugar diabetes, is caused by your cat's lack of ability to metabolize sugar.

There is mounting evidence that several vitamins, including Vitamins C, D, and the B class can help in the preventive stages of diabetes.

There are two type of diabetes, and your cat can develop either form of this life-threatening disease, and it can affect any breed and any age group, as it does not discriminate. Diabetes in Cats, however, will occur more often in middle aged and older cats, cats that are obese, and will also affect male cats almost twice as often as female cats.

If this disease is left untreated, it can have severe impacts on the overall health of your cat, and in the most severe of cases, coma will set in and than, most likely, this disease will cost your cat its life.

There are two types of diabetes:

Diabetes Type 1 most always occurs because the pancreases of your cat is not producing enough of the hormone insulin, and Type 2 Diabetes, where your cat's cells will not be responsive to the presence of insulin.

Diabetes in Cats is a disease that can best be described as preventing insulin that is needed for numerous functions in your cat, from passing to each cell, and than allowing glucose to enter into that cell.

Without this process, the valuable insulin sugar will remain in your cat's blood stream and eventually passes into the urination tract and then leaves the body with the urine.

This will cause your cat to drink a lot more water due to the thirst requirements, and your cat will also be a lot hungrier because its body can not use the sugar in the blood.

As the diabetes progresses, there is a chemical called "ketones" that accumulates, which cause your cat to vomit frequently which causes more dehydration. Diabetes in cats is not a curable disease, but it is certainly a manageable disease if diagnosed, treated, and insulin is properly maintained.

If maintained, cats with this disease can lead very happy and normal lives.

There are numerous warning signs and symptoms that you can watch for in this disease. As described earlier, the two biggest warning signs will be an excessive thirst and with that an excessive amount of urination.

Because your cat is going through this battle, even though they will have an increased appetite, they will loss weight due to the dehydration it is suffering.

Cats, by nature, are very tedious and clean, so another warning sign is a sudden unkempt coat with your cat. Along with this change

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