The Symptoms of Diabetes

Blue Circle for Diabetes

In this modern era, work’s demand, less physical exercise, and wrong eating habit  perform unhealthy life style. Unhealthy life style can causes diabetes. Diabetes is a metabolic disorders of fat, protein, and carbohydrate metabolism  caused by defects insulin secretion, insulin action (sensitivity), or both. There are two major classifications of Diabetes. Type 1 is an autoimmune disorder developing that usually happen in childhood. Meanwhile, type 2 is increases with age, caused by multiple risk factors such as obesity, hypertension, cholesterol. That’s why diabetes is a really unpredictable disease and could happen to anyone of us.

We have to understand what the symptoms are. Many people do not feel the symptoms until it is too late. Three common symptoms of diabetes are excessive thirst, frequent urination, and extreme hunger. Excessive thirst  and frequent urination are related. Many people presumes that excessive thirst causes frequent urination. But research proves that excessive thirst is caused by frequent urination. Extreme hunger makes diabetic people eat a lot, but they keep starving because of insulin deficiency.

Beside the three common symptoms, there are another symptoms such as itchy skin, unusual weight loss, body weakness, numbness, dry skin, blood glucose more than 200 mg/dl (at usual day) and more than 126 mg/dl (fasting).

From now on, we have to change our life style. Do early examination of our body, and routin visit  to the doctor must be done minimum twice in a year.

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