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Friday, January 21, 2011

symptoms of diabetes


While talking about symptoms of diabetes, you must keep in mind that there are no clear real symptoms, and not all the individuals present all them.

Diabetes symptoms vary from person to person making observations as difficult as comparing life insurance quotes in a time besot by financial crisis. The best thing you can do is to learn more about these symptoms and weigh how many of them applies to you.


The most common symptoms of diabetes that one can experience are as follow:

• Constant excessive thirst and Unusual increased urination
If you have diabetes,due to high sugar blood level, fluid comes out from cells to blood stream in order to adapt to this new situation. This cause dehydration of body cell, they suffer lack of fluid.
But here interfere your body thirst center which makes you to drink a lot of water or other juices. When you take lots of juices, you may experience frequent urination daily and nights.

• Increase hunger and weight gain as common symptoms of diabetes
When you have diabetes, you lose too much fluid and too much sugar. Your body needs to compensate them by craving sweets or other foods as well.
This experience of increase hunger causes you a fast weight gain. But this is not good for you body, and diabetes and weight gain
is not a 'good-impact' link. It has a negative influence on your diabetes course too.

• Vision changes
If you have diabetes, you may experience sudden vision changes, such as blurred vision. This is caused because, due to diabetes changes in your eye tissues, they tend to pull out from your lenses.
This makes you disable to focus, but if you take appropriate treatment, this can be restored. But, in serious cases of diabetes, these vision disorders can be prolonged, and maybe it leads you to blindness.

• Not healing skin infections
During diabetes, your body process of healing is hindered due to high sugar blood level. Mostly, you can experience recurrent skin infection.
Or, if you are a woman, you may have problems due to no properly recovery from vaginal and bladder yeast infections.
So, you must pay attention to all these kinds of recurrent infections, because they are a signal for you : you might have diabetes.
On the other hand you should know about diabetes skin care
to avoid future severe skin injuries.

• Tingling or Numbness
While you experience diabetes, your high sugar blood level damages your nerves and your nerves blood vessels too. This leads to some specific symptoms such as tingling or numbness in your hands or feet.
Maybe, you can also, experience some burning sensation in hands, arms, legs or feet.

• Gums disorders
Another symptom you can experience during diabetes, are several gums disorders. During diabetes your gums may be tender, swollen or red. Your teeth may be loose due to gums pulling away from your teeth.
There might be present, also, gum infections and several gum diseases. You may try an alternative to protect your gums, and at the same time a no-carbohydrates sweetener at all.

• Some other common symptoms of diabetes
Diabetic people may suffer from feeling very tired, weak, fatigue most of the time. Also, they may experience loss of appetite, dry skin, stomach pains, nausea, vomiting, or even hair loss.
If you want to know more about what can you do for diabetes and hair loss, click here.

These are some common symptoms for diabetes that you may experience. You must keep in mind, that you may not experience all the symptoms. They vary from one individual to another.
Also, you must remember that you may have diabetes symptoms, but you are not aware of them, because they can be unnoticed.
What do you have to do if you notice to have them?
You can make a simple sugar blood test yourself, and immediately consult your doctor for further follow up.

DIABETES -EXCESSIVE THIRST


Thirst - excessive

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Excessive thirst is an abnormal feeling of always needing to drink fluids.

Considerations

Drinking lots of water is usually healthy. However, the urge to drink too much may be the result of a physical or emotional disease. Excessive thirst may be a symptom of high blood sugar (hyperglycemia). It can be an important clue in detecting diabetes.
Excessive thirst is a fairly common symptom. It is often the reaction to fluid loss during exercise, or to eating salty foods.

Causes

  • A recent salty or spicy meal
  • Bleeding enough to cause a significant decrease in blood volume
  • Diabetes
  • Diabetes insipidus
  • Drugs such as anticholinergics, demeclocycline, diuretics, phenothiazines
  • Excessive loss of water and salt (possibly due to not drinking enough water, profuse sweating, diarrhea, or vomiting)
  • Loss of body fluids from the bloodstream into the tissues due to:
    • Conditions such as severe infections (sepsis) or burns
    • Heart, liver, or kidney failure
  • Psychogenic polydipsia, the result of a mental disorder

Home Care

Because thirst is usually the body's signal to replace water loss, it is usually appropriate to drink plenty of liquids.
A very strong, constant urge to drink may be a sign of a psychological problem, which may mean psychological help is needed.
For thirst caused by diabetes, follow the prescribed treatment to properly control blood sugar levels.

When to Contact a Medical Professional

  • Excessive thirst is persistent and unexplained
  • Thirst is accompanied by other unexplained symptoms, such as blurry vision and fatigue
  • You are passing more than 5 quarts of urine per day

What to Expect at Your Office Visit

The health care provider will get your medical history and perform a physical examination.
Medical history questions may include the following:
  • How long have you been aware of having increased thirst?
  • Is it consistent during the day?
  • Is it worse during the day?
  • Did it develop suddenly or slowly?
  • Are you eating more salty or spicy foods?
  • How much salt do you have each day?
  • Did you change your diet?
  • Have you noticed an increased appetite?
  • Have you noticed an unintentional weight gain?
  • Have you noticed an unintentional weight loss?
  • Has your activity level recently increased?
  • What other symptoms are happening at the same time?
  • Have you recently suffered a burn or other injury?
  • Are you urinating more or less frequently than usual?
  • Are you producing more or less urine than usual?
  • Have you noticed any bleeding?
  • Are you sweating more than usual?
  • Is there any swelling in your body?
  • Do you have a fever?
A psychological evaluation may be recommended if the health care provider suspects a psychological compulsive thirst. Your fluid intake and output will be closely watched.
Diagnostic tests that may be performed include the following:

Alternative Names

Increased thirst; Polydipsia; Excessive thirst

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