Losing control of glucose: Your glucose starts to rise in your blood when insulin is either not present in sufficient quantity or isn’t working effectively. Once your glucose rises above 10mmol/L, glucose begins to spill into the urine and make it sweet. Up to that point, the kidney, the filter for the blood, is able to extract the glucose before it enters your urine. It’s the loss of glucose into the urine that leads to many of the short-term complications of diabetes. The following list notes the most common early symptoms of diabetes and how they occur. One or more of the following symptoms may be present when diabetes is diagnosed: -Frequent urination and thirst: The glucose in the urine draws more water out of the blood, so more urine forms. More urine in your bladder makes you feel the need to urinate more frequently during the day and to get up at night to empty the bladder, which keeps filling up. As the amount of`water in your blood declines, you feel thirsty and drink much more frequently. -Fatigue: Because glucose can’t enter cells that depend on insulin as a key for glucose (the most important exception is the brain, which doesn’t need insulin), glucose can’t be used as a fuel to move muscles or to facilitate the many other chemical reactions that have to take place to produce energy. The person with diabetes often complains of fatigue and feels much stronger once treatment allows glucose to enter cells again. -Weight loss: Weight loss is common among some people with diabetes because they lack insulin, which is the builder hormone. When insulin is lacking for any reason, the body begins to break down and you lose muscle tissue. Some of`the muscle converts into glucose even though it can’t get into cells. It passes out of your body in the urine. Fat tissue breaks down into small fat particles that can provide an alternative source of`energy. As your body breaks down and you lose glucose in the urine, you often experience weight loss. However, most people with diabetes are heavy rather than skinny. -Persistent vaginal infection among women: As blood glucose rises, all the fluids in your body contain higher levels of glucose, including sweat and body secretions such as semen in men and vaginal secretions in women. Many bugs, such as bacteria and fungi, thrive in the high glucose environment. Women begin to complain of itching or burning, an abnormal discharge from the vagina, and sometimes an odour.
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 02:35:30 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015