Diabetes is often due to its easy to miss symptoms and called silent killer.
Symptoms of diabetes
Diabetes affects 24 million people in the United States, but only 18 million know they have. About 90% of people have type 2 diabetes.
In diabetes, it increases acts of blood sugar as a poison.
Diabetes is often due to its easy to miss symptoms and called silent killer. "Almost every day people in my office with diabetes who do not know," said Maria Collazo-Clavell, MD, an endocrinologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
The best way to increase a blood glucose test. But if you have these symptoms, see a doctor.
Increased urination, excessive thirst
If you urinate more often, especially if you often at night to get the toilet, it can be a symptom of diabetes.
Rein kick into high gear to get all that excess glucose in the blood to get rid of, so the desire to relieve, sometimes several times during the night.
Excessive thirst means that your body tries to replenish lost fluids again.
These two symptoms go hand in hand, and some of the "possibilities of the body to try to deal with high sugar levels in the blood," said Collazo-Clavell Dr.
Weight loss
Too high blood sugar levels can also lead to rapid weight loss, say 10-20 pounds in two or three months, but it is not a healthy weight loss.
Insulin is the hormone not glucose into cells, where it can be used as energy, the body thinks, quick starts and degradation of muscle protein as an alternative fuel source.
The kidneys work overtime to eliminate excess sugar, which leads to a loss of calories (and can damage the kidneys). "These processes, which require a lot of energy," says Dr. Collazo-Clavell it. "You can create a calorie deficit."
Hunger
Excessive hunger, another sign of diabetes, may originate from the sharp peaks and troughs in the sugar levels in the blood.
When sugar levels in the blood falls, the body thinks it is not fed and hungry for more glucose, the cells need to function.
Skin Problems
Itchy skin may may cause dry skin or ill-treatment are often a warning sign of diabetes, and other skin conditions as acanthosis nigricans is.
"This is a darkening of the skin around the neck or under the arms," said Collazo-Clavell Dr. "People who already produces insulin resistance process, even when their sugar levels in the blood can not be high. When I see, I want to check your sugar levels in the blood. "
Slow healing
Infections, cuts and bruises that do not heal quickly another classic sign of diabetes.
This usually occurs because the blood vessels are damaged by excessive amounts of glucose hiking veins and arteries.
This makes it difficult for blood to promote healing are needed to reach different areas of the body.
Fungal infections
"Diabetes is immune status," says Dr. Collazo-Clavell on. This means increased susceptibility to various infections, though the most common are yeast (Candida) and other fungal infections, where they. Mushrooms and bacteria thrive in environments rich in sugar.
Women, in particular, need to follow vaginal Candida infections.
Fatigue and irritability
"When people have sugar levels high blood, depending on how long it was, they can not well used chronically," said Collazo-Clavell Dr. "Sometimes this is what he brings in the office."
Arrive go to the toilet several times a night, you will be tired, as the extra effort to consume your body to make to offset the glucose deficit.
And fatigue you are irritable. "We see people whose blood sugar was really high, and if we can bring the sugar level in the blood drops, it is not rare that I hear:" I do not know how I felt bad , "she said.
Blurred vision
With distorted vision and floating light or occasional flashes of light are a direct result of high blood sugar.
"Blur Index vision problem. When blood sugar is high, the shape of the lens and the eye will change," said Collazo-Clavell Dr.
The good news is that this symptom is reversible once the blood sugar back to normal or near normal. But your blood sugar to go unpunished for long periods and glucose can cause permanent damage that can even lead to blindness. And it is irreversible.
Tingling or numbness
Numbness and tingling in hands and feet, with burning or swelling are signs that nerve damage from diabetes.
"If (the symptoms) may be reversible recently, it is," says Dr. Collazo-Clavell.
But will be like in the vision when blood sugar can creep too long, neuropathy (nerve damage) to run last. "That's why we try, sugar levels in the blood under control as quickly as possible," she said.
Blood tests
Several tests are used to check for diabetes, but a test result is never (repeat test is) enough on its own to diagnose diabetes.
One is the fasting plasma glucose test that tests the sugar levels in the blood after an overnight (or eight hours) not eaten.
Sugar of more than 126 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl) in the blood in both cases means that you have diabetes.
99 mg / dL Regular Fit levels and blood glucose 100-125 mg / dl is considered pre-diabetes, a serious disease itself.
Symptoms of diabetes
Diabetes affects 24 million people in the United States, but only 18 million know they have. About 90% of people have type 2 diabetes.
In diabetes, it increases acts of blood sugar as a poison.
The best way to increase a blood glucose test. But if you have these symptoms, see a doctor.
Increased urination, excessive thirst
If you urinate more often, especially if you often at night to get the toilet, it can be a symptom of diabetes.
Rein kick into high gear to get all that excess glucose in the blood to get rid of, so the desire to relieve, sometimes several times during the night.
Excessive thirst means that your body tries to replenish lost fluids again.
These two symptoms go hand in hand, and some of the "possibilities of the body to try to deal with high sugar levels in the blood," said Collazo-Clavell Dr.
Weight loss
Too high blood sugar levels can also lead to rapid weight loss, say 10-20 pounds in two or three months, but it is not a healthy weight loss.
Insulin is the hormone not glucose into cells, where it can be used as energy, the body thinks, quick starts and degradation of muscle protein as an alternative fuel source.
The kidneys work overtime to eliminate excess sugar, which leads to a loss of calories (and can damage the kidneys). "These processes, which require a lot of energy," says Dr. Collazo-Clavell it. "You can create a calorie deficit."
Hunger
Excessive hunger, another sign of diabetes, may originate from the sharp peaks and troughs in the sugar levels in the blood.
When sugar levels in the blood falls, the body thinks it is not fed and hungry for more glucose, the cells need to function.
Skin Problems
Itchy skin may may cause dry skin or ill-treatment are often a warning sign of diabetes, and other skin conditions as acanthosis nigricans is.
"This is a darkening of the skin around the neck or under the arms," said Collazo-Clavell Dr. "People who already produces insulin resistance process, even when their sugar levels in the blood can not be high. When I see, I want to check your sugar levels in the blood. "
Slow healing
Infections, cuts and bruises that do not heal quickly another classic sign of diabetes.
This usually occurs because the blood vessels are damaged by excessive amounts of glucose hiking veins and arteries.
This makes it difficult for blood to promote healing are needed to reach different areas of the body.
Fungal infections
"Diabetes is immune status," says Dr. Collazo-Clavell on. This means increased susceptibility to various infections, though the most common are yeast (Candida) and other fungal infections, where they. Mushrooms and bacteria thrive in environments rich in sugar.
Women, in particular, need to follow vaginal Candida infections.
Fatigue and irritability
"When people have sugar levels high blood, depending on how long it was, they can not well used chronically," said Collazo-Clavell Dr. "Sometimes this is what he brings in the office."
Arrive go to the toilet several times a night, you will be tired, as the extra effort to consume your body to make to offset the glucose deficit.
And fatigue you are irritable. "We see people whose blood sugar was really high, and if we can bring the sugar level in the blood drops, it is not rare that I hear:" I do not know how I felt bad , "she said.
Blurred vision
With distorted vision and floating light or occasional flashes of light are a direct result of high blood sugar.
"Blur Index vision problem. When blood sugar is high, the shape of the lens and the eye will change," said Collazo-Clavell Dr.
The good news is that this symptom is reversible once the blood sugar back to normal or near normal. But your blood sugar to go unpunished for long periods and glucose can cause permanent damage that can even lead to blindness. And it is irreversible.
Tingling or numbness
Numbness and tingling in hands and feet, with burning or swelling are signs that nerve damage from diabetes.
"If (the symptoms) may be reversible recently, it is," says Dr. Collazo-Clavell.
But will be like in the vision when blood sugar can creep too long, neuropathy (nerve damage) to run last. "That's why we try, sugar levels in the blood under control as quickly as possible," she said.
Blood tests
Several tests are used to check for diabetes, but a test result is never (repeat test is) enough on its own to diagnose diabetes.
One is the fasting plasma glucose test that tests the sugar levels in the blood after an overnight (or eight hours) not eaten.
Sugar of more than 126 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl) in the blood in both cases means that you have diabetes.
99 mg / dL Regular Fit levels and blood glucose 100-125 mg / dl is considered pre-diabetes, a serious disease itself.
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