For many of us the symptoms of diabetes do not seem very serious when they experience them firstly. The reality, a huge amounts of diabetic people never diagnosed. According to recent research it is estimated there are seventeen million diabetics in the United States alone, and it is estimated that 5.9 million of them never get diagnosed with this life threatening disease.
Many diabetics may even show some sort of disbelief when they are diagnosed to have diabetes. The diabetic symptoms can seem so minor that they don’t feel any different with their body. Since the symptoms can seem rather minor at the first start they can be attributed to other health problems. However diabetes is a really serious disease and it is actually the sixth leading deat caused by disease in the United States.
Based on the information of American Diabetes Association, the most common symptoms of diabetes include:
• Frequent urination which is coming from high blood glucose which rise blood flow to our kidneys.
• Excessive thirst which is the results from dehydration caused by the increased urinary output.
• Extreme hunger because the glucose is not absrobed into our body’s cells caused by the lack of insulin the body suffers from the energy deficit, leading to hunger.
• Unusual lose weight. Our body can actually loses weight because it breaks down the proteins and fats to support the perceived energy deficit
• Increased fatigue. It is caused by the decrease in energy
• Irritability
• Blurry vision. It is caused by the increased blood volume that causes a swelling of the eye lens.
It’s quite easy to know why these symptoms might be mistaken for something other than diabetes. There are several daily conditions that can cause some of these symptoms. For instance the stress of daily life can cause to fatigue or irritability and also depression that can also lead to weight loss. Any number of minor illnesses like colds or the flu may also cause diabetes like symptoms.
As our diabetes gets progressively worse so will these symptoms. Another thing to remember is that unlike symptoms associated with other illness in daily life these symptoms of diabetes will not just go away. If you feel any of these symptoms and they do not go away after sometimes, it is important to schedule a doctors appointment and discuss the symptoms with a physician.
The sooner diabetes is recognized the sooner preventative treatment can be undertaken. This is important because the longer it is not treated the more damage it can do to our body and its organ systems.
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