13/06/2022
Signs of diabetes
The signs of diabetes vary more or less according to the type of diabetes, sometimes very mild, even without obvious symptoms, making it difficult for patients to detect themselves, until the disease has complications. New symptoms are examined and treated.
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes
Symptoms of type 1 diabetes often progress quickly, can appear for a few days or weeks with typical symptoms including:
Feeling hungry and tired: Normally, the body converts the food you eat into glucose for the cells to use for energy. The cells will need insulin to be able to absorb glucose, however, when the body does not make enough insulin, or the body's cells are resistant to insulin, the glucose cannot be absorbed. get energy. This makes the patient feel more hungry and tired than usual.
Frequent thirst, frequent urination: The average person will lose about 4-7 times to urinate within 24 hours, but in type 1 diabetes patients will urinate more often. The reason comes from the fact that in a normal mechanism, the body will reabsorb glucose when it passes through the kidneys, and in diabetics, the amount of glucose in the blood is pushed up so that the kidneys cannot absorb it all again. As a result, glucose will be excreted through the urine, leading to water excretion, causing the body to produce more urine, the patient urinates more often. When urinating a lot causes dehydration, the patient will be very thirsty so he will need to drink water, but because of that, urinating more.
Dry mouth, itchy skin: Patients will urinate more, causing the body to lose water, making the mouth area feel dry. At the same time, dry skin can cause the patient to itch.
Weight loss: Some patients eat a lot but still lose weight after a few weeks due to dehydration, lysis of fat and muscle tissue.
Symptoms of type 2 diabetes
In type 2 diabetes, symptoms progress silently and develop over many years, most patients do not experience obvious symptoms like type 1 diabetes, so it is difficult to detect. The disease can be discovered accidentally through blood glucose tests or there are complications such as infected wounds that take a long time to heal. Some suspicious signs that require examination and necessary tests to accurately diagnose diabetes include:
Yeast infection: Both sexes can get this if they have diabetes. Yeast will eat glucose, so a high concentration of glucose will cause the fungus to thrive. Patients may find the infection in any moist fold of skin, between fingers and toes, under the breasts, and even around or in the ge****ls.
Slow wound healing: Too much blood sugar can affect the blood flow of the whole body, damage the nervous system, making it difficult to heal wounds. In addition, the patient may experience pain or numbness in the leg. It is also a sign of nerve damage.