Diabetes is the classic 21st century disease. Known as a medical condition for thousands of years, it has risen in Western countries to almost epidemic proportions in the last 50 years. According to the American Diabetic Association, 7% of the American population, 20.8 million children and adults, currently suffer from various forms of diabetes.
At least one third of this number, or 6.2 million people, are undiagnosed, and unaware of the damage that complications of diabetes can cause.
The term diabetes actually includes several different syndromes, each with different risk factors and causes. As research continues, more sub-types are discovered, and treatments become more specific, with many clinics specialising in diabetic treatment and prevention.
Diabetes symptoms commonly experienced are more or less the same for all types of diabetes. The difference is in the severity, and in the amount of time that symptoms are present before treatment is sought. In Type 1 diabetes, diabetes symptoms will usually be present only for a few weeks at most before the disease becomes severe enough to force the sufferer to seek treatment.
On the other hand, Type 2 diabetics will often have diabetes symptoms for years without realising that anything is really wrong, and will only be diagnosed when complications are noticed. For this reason a list of common complications is included here, as they can be used almost as additional diabetes symptoms, especially for older people.
What are the symptoms of diabetes?
The signs and symptoms of diabetes are too many, but the most important and most noted by the rights are excessive thirst and urination lot, especially at night. Often does not appear on the patient's specific symptoms indicative of disease. The discover the disease at the time of the medical examination
The symptoms can be understood as follows:
Frequent urination
Because the presence of a large amount of sugar in the urine is thrown large amounts of water with him
Frequent thirst
This is due to put large amounts of water in the urine
Dryness of the tongue, mouth, and skin with fatigue and lethargy
This if they are not drinking enough water to compensate for the subtractions in the urine
Weight loss or decline
The weight loss is one of the early symptoms of diabetes. Multiplicity put sugar in the urine makes the infected body begins forced consumption of fatty substances and stored in body fat and this weight start to decrease.
Insatiable plus or excessive feeling of hunger because of an imbalance in the body's metabolism
Then comes the following symptoms that should raise interest to investigate the possibility of the presence of diabetes:
Vision problems (blurred eye) and poor eyesight
Itching, especially in the genital area
Sugar substance that helps the growth of bacteria infections abound in the moist areas of the body such as the genitals (especially in women), and skin. It also helps to reduce the body's resistance against germs in other locations of the body.
Delay in healing of wounds and bruises when they occur (foot ulcers)
Sometimes the patient feels the need to breathe quickly, like a hungry air (get this if some chemical reactions in the body has produced so-called acetone which irritates the centers in the brain responsible for regulating the speed and depth of breathing)