Signs of Diabetes

Symptoms and signs of diabetes are important to know because it is most closely related to the proper handling. Diabetes is often called the silent killer because it has a vague symptom. The best way to be sure is to do a blood sugar test. But if you have signs such as the following, immediately consult your health care center or doctor. 

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The Signs Of Diabetes: 

1. Frequent Urination and Excessive Thirst

You often wake up night to urinate can be a sign of diabetes symptoms. In this condition, the kidneys work actively to remove excess blood glucose through the urine so that you will urinate, especially at night. While excessive thirst is the body's response to fill fluids lost due to frequent urination.

2. Losing Weight

High blood sugar levels can cause drastic weight loss because the hormone insulin is not able to distribute glucose into body cells to be used as energy so that the body begins to break down muscle protein for use as an alternative energy. This will cause a drastic decrease in muscle mass and causing the lose weight.

3. Often Feel Hungry

Excessive hunger is another sign of diabetes. It occurs due to high blood sugar levels but can not be absorbed by the body cells to be used in metabolic processes. This condition is also called polyphagia.

4. Color Skin Becomes Dark

Dry and itchy skin conditions as well as the appearance of dark black spots on the skin is another sign of diabetes. Examples such as acanthosis-nigricans is darkening of the skin around the neck or armpits. Darkening of the skin is due to the insulin that the body react so much produce pigment.

5. Healing Old Wounds

One of the easiest ways to identify diabetes is to see that there are wounds on his body. Infections, cuts and bruises that do not heal is another sign of diabetes. This happens because the veins and arteries damaged by the high amount of glucose in the blood. These conditions make it difficult to reach areas of blood being injured to support the wound healing process.

6. Easy Fatigue

People who have high blood sugar levels will generally feel that's your condition tired and exhausted. If the body begins to feel tired easily with activities that are not too much is a sign of the presence of a disease in the body. This needs to be aware and could be one of the early symptoms of diabetes.

7. Weakened Eyesight

If the power of one's eyesight had begun to decline and not due to aging, then this is indicated as a symptom of diabetes due to increased blood glucose levels around the eyepiece. This condition is reversible nature (to be back to normal) when blood sugar levels back to normal. But if uncontrolled blood sugar levels will cause permanent damage to the eye and can lead to blindness.

8. Damage to nerve function

The decline in nerve function could be seen from the onset of tingling and numbness in the hands and feet together with less pain as burning or swelling. If left unchecked this condition will cause nerve damage (neuropathy) permanent.

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Awareness to Sign of Diabetes 

Signs of diabetes above are a sign that we can use as a reference in determining the likelihood of developing diabetes or not. But to get a more accurate result is highly recommended to check the blood sugar to your doctor or other health professional. This will provide definitive and accurate results and can give an idea about the proper handling according to the type of diabetes and the condition of the patient as there are some patients have a certain resistance or allergy to the drug to be administered. So it should be more careful. And please note that the condition of normal blood glucose was 99 mg/dL, while the blood sugar levels between 100-125 mg/dL can be categorized as pre-diabetic condition, for blood glucose levels above 126 mg/dL can be considered diabetes. Signs of diabetes in the above may be a reference for us to detect it early on diabetes disease and diabetic retinopathy.