By: Bertil Hjert
Do you want to lead a healthy and normal life with diabetes? Do you want diabetes not to affect you in your daily activities? Do you want to avoid suffering from any sort of complications that may strike you when you have diabetes?
If your answer is in a 'yes' to all the questions mentioned above, you need to keep tabs on potential symptoms of diabetes. This will allow you to detect it at an early stage and make the treatment easier and comfortable for you.
If you treat this disease at an early stage, there are chances that you would have best early treatment and speedy recovery. You can even avoid many health complications one usually tends to suffer from when already having diabetes.
So, it is time to learn a lot about diabetes symptoms and keep checking for it on a regular basis for effective treatment.
Here are some of the symptoms that would indicate you to rush for medical help. Symptoms of diabetes include:
a) Excessive thirst and increased urination:
These are classic symptoms of diabetes. When a person has diabetes, excess sugar builds up inside the blood making the kidney do extra efforts to filter and absorb the extra sugar.
In case, the kidneys are unable to keep up to the expectation, the excess sugar needs to be excreted in your urine in conjunction with other fluids drawn from your tissues. This results in frequent urination that may leave you dehydrated.
b) Feeling similar to flue:
In certain cases, diabetes symptoms are quite similar to flue. Fatigue, weakness and loss of appetite are normal. This is due to the poor control over diabetes resulting in body's inability to use sugar for energy. The sugar just stores in the blood leaving you tired.
c) Excess weight loss or weight gain:
This is also a potential symptom for diabetes. When a person loses sugar via frequent urination, the body tends to lose calories. The disease also has a tendency to keep sugar away from food to reach your cell. This makes you feel hungry more often. The combined effect results in weight loss in cases of diabetes type 1. Being overweight will also make your body tissues resistant to insulin action and increase the blood sugar level.
d) Delayed sore healing and frequent infections:
When blood sugar level is high inside the body, the natural healing process is hampered. This also affects the ability to fight infections.
e) Tingling hands and feet:
Excess sugar in your blood can result in nerve damage. One may observe tingling and loss of sensation in your hands and feet.
f) Red, swollen and tender gums:
Diabetes is known to reduce the ability of your body to fight germs. This specifically increases the risk of infection inside your gums and in bones that works towards holding your teeth in place. The teeth may become lose and even develop sores or pus in gums.
g) Keep tabs on your body:
In case, you notice any of the symptoms mentioned above, contact your doctor on an immediate basis. Remember that diabetes is a serious condition. It may lead to a lot of complications in future. So consult a health care practitioner soon and enjoy a healthy and active life.
