Having diabetes, means your blood sugar levels are too high.
Over time, this can damage your nerves or blood vessels. Nerve damage from diabetes can cause you to lose feeling in your feet. You may not feel a cut, a blister or a sore. Foot injuries
such as these can cause ulcers and infections.
Serious cases may even lead to amputation. Damage to the blood vessels can also mean that your feet do not get enough blood and oxygen.
It is harder for your foot to heal, if you do get a sore or infection. You can help avoid foot problems. First, control your blood sugar levels. Good foot hygiene is also crucial.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that can cause many serious complications. Numbness and tingling in your feet or hands (neuropathy), kidney failure (nephropathy) and vision problems (retinopathy) which can lead to blindness, are the most well-known complications.
Last really bad Low was last spring and I had been ok at 2 hr. post-prandial and then, and then..............within 20 minutes was at the point where my wife had to threaten me with call ambulance to get me to stop laughing and drink regular soda, (Coke, of course) after aprox. 12-14 oz. of Coke and 15 minutes I was back up to 54 and climbing.
Interesting experience, rather not go through it again, tho, Thanks.
The risk factors for diabetes include being overweight, a sedentary lifestyle, a family history of diabetes, a history of gestational diabetes , and being from a particular ethnic group.
Diabetes is a disease that can turn out a lot of complications that might eventually be fatal.
Vascular disease is most common in diabetics. There are two kinds of vascular diseases, microvascular and macrovascular disease. The two differ due to the kinds of veins they affect. Microvascular disease is for smaller blood vessels and macrovascular for the arteries. Microvascular disease affect the diabetics vision, the extremities most especially numbness in the legs or feet and kidney damage. Macrovascualr disease usually focuses on the heart and its functions as well as possibilities of a stroke and other disease that affect the feet and muscles.
The only diet that will keep you healthy if you have diabetes is one that keeps your blood sugars below 140 mg/dl (7.7 mmol/L) at all times. Diet and medications can stop your diabetes from antibacterial your body
Diabetes mellitus, often simply referred to as diabetes—is a condition in which a person has high blood sugar, either because the body does not produce enough insulin, or because cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. This high blood sugar produces the classical symptoms of polyuria (frequent urination), polydipsia (increased thirst) and polyphagia (increased hunger).
There are three main types of diabetes:
Type 1 diabetes: results from the body's failure to produce insulin, and presently requires the person to inject insulin.
Type 2 diabetes: results from insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to use insulin properly, sometimes combined with an absolute insulin deficiency.
Gestational diabetes: is when pregnant women, who have never had diabetes before, have a high blood glucose level during pregnancy. It may precede development of type 2 DM.
Untreated diabetes can lead to a number of other health complications that can not be considered until the doctor says you are one of them. Diabetics know the typical problems of disease, thirst, fear of injury, dawn awakening, drowsiness, tremors, etc.