What is diabetes?
Diabetes is a serious disease caused by a genetic people: the probability of developing a disease of the pancreas. If your family is exposed to the disease, read this article to identify the symptoms of diabetes in the shortest possible time.
Diabetes Type I
Type I is known as insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). And less common for the United States, but is the most serious and usually develops within a few days or weeks. In DID, the lack of insulin resulting from the destruction of beta cells. Symptoms associated with DID are so distinct that rarely leave any doubt of diagnosis. They are as follows:
Polyurie: urinate frequently and in large quantities is a classic symptom of diabetes, such as body fluid rushes through the kidneys to dilute the high sugar levels in urine.
Polydipsie: An unusual thirst is the natural result of too frequent urination, the body, which shows the loss of fluids to be replaced. Dehydration possibly occurs if the condition is not taken before.
Polifagia: That feeling of extreme hunger resulting from the conviction that the body will die of hunger because the glucose can not reach your cells to provide a desperately needed energy.
Rapid weight loss: the majority of patients of type I are at or below their ideal weight. When DID, May suddenly lose more weight up to 15 pounds in a week, although they may more than enough to eat and have a good appetite. The lack of insulin means that the calories in the form of glucose, are sent through Lurin and the body begins to burn fat reserves.
Weakness: Because muscle cells are not usually receiving their fuel, Energy flags. Of course, fatigue can have many causes, which is why diabetes can not go on so long. Concerned if a child seems active tired, sleepy, listless and without apparent reason. Some children complain even May of the stomach, leg or chest pain, or having difficulty breathing.
Irritability: In youth, crankiness, confusion or excessive crying in May warning of impending disease. A child may seem inattentive or can not do well at school as before.
Nausea and / or vomiting: These symptoms preceding May ketoacidosis, ketones accumulate toxic acids in the blood when lorganismo has to resort to burning fat for energy storage.
Blurred vision: excess glucose in May colando be in their eyes, change the shape of the lens. Difficulty concentrating or changes for one day to the next from myopia to normal vision are other visual cues for diabetes possible.
TYPE II
Type II or non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM), accounts for the majority of cases of diabetes, estimates that almost 13 million people in the United States. Unlike Type I, Type II is progressing more slowly. It may drag along for years unnoticed. Symptoms appear gradually in May, more intense and more frequent or leta. Consult your doctor as soon as you observe the following:
At least one of the symptoms of type I
Picotements or numbness of the legs, feet or fingers, or May you have a burning sensation or increased sensitivity to this effect or other spots on the skin. Symptoms such as leg cramps may worsen or appear only at night. Again, these may be signs that the spread is low or nerve damage that is already in progress.
Frequent infections diabetes weakens the body’s defenses against bacterial invasion. Gum infections of the urinary tract, or skin that keep recurring or a long period of time to demonstrate that dispel the disease in May has begun to interfere with the immune system.
Itching of the skin or genitals: This may be the result of an underlying infection or dehydration, a byproduct of diabetes.
Slow healing cuts and bruises: Because diabetes affects how cells use nutrients derived from food, lAgenzia may find it difficult to repair the damaged tissue. Diabetes also thickens the blood vessels, slowing traffic and prevention of injuries received by the blood, these necessary nutrients and oxygen.
Unfortunately, too many of these symptoms may be overlooked or attributed to other conditions. Make sure your blood sugar checked every year, at least, and more often if there are manifestations of any of the symptoms.


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