Diabetic complications: a terrorist’s “disease”
Posted on October 27, 2009
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With the continuous improvement of our standard of living, the incidence of diabetes has also been improved. Then we find around us more and more diabetic patients, and there are a lot of young people and children are also suffering from diabetes. Some people began to panic, not easily eat carbohydrates that more will suffer from sugar diabetes. In fact, diabetes is not because more sugar, but in order to prevent diabetes, or eat less sugar in the diet is better. However, the normal consumption of sugar foods is not suffering from diabetes. Currently considered the occurrence of diabetes and the genetic, environmental, immune, and many other factors.
In fact, diabetes is not terrible, terrible complications of diabetes.
Complications of diabetes can be divided into two major categories of acute and chronic. Acute complications severity of the treatment can be life-threatening bad deal with good luck can be overcome, but essentially without leaving any traces. And chronic complications is more is more hidden, can occur unconsciously, early can still be reversed, late units must suffer.
Diabetic chronic complications, including blood vessels and nerves two categories, in particular, mainly in the following areas:
(1) eye. Easily lead to cataracts, retinopathy, there is the risk of blindness.
(2) kidney. Will lead to renal failure; the body a lot of waste can not be discharged, and so they easily lead to uremia.
(3) nerves. Mainly nerve palsy, it can lead hands and feet numbness, diarrhea, constipation, impotence and other young male patients, but also may affect the heart, gastrointestinal function, sensory-motor and so on.
(4) blood vessels. Because of high blood sugar in the blood will lead to arteriosclerosis, prone to cerebral thrombosis, stroke, cerebral infarction, angina, coronary heart disease and so on, causing paralysis, hemiplegia risk. In addition, lower extremity vascular disease, could easily lead to cold feet, intermittent claudication. If the wound generation, wound healing is not easy, easy to cause muscle necrosis while the risk of amputation. Lower extremity vascular disease and generally have neuropathy, they do not feel sensitive, slow, feet do not feel pain Tangde blistering, and some are rotten to the bones of the feeling of hurt.
In addition, urinary system diseases will occur, such as the complicated pyelonephritis, cystitis, skin lesions, such as from furuncle and carbuncle, athlete’s foot, genital itching and so on.
Therefore, the fight against chronic complications of diabetes has become our main task. I would like to present, as well as blood glucose increased in diabetic patients say: “To guard against complications of diabetes, with complications of diabetes fight!” It is very necessary.
But how can the risk of diabetic complications to minimize it?
Control of blood glucose is essential
Generally speaking, the normal range of blood glucose, fasting blood glucose should be 60 ~ 100 mg / liter. Can be the best within the normal range, but the age of 70 to 80-year-old, does not require his blood sugar completely in the normal range, it can be slightly higher than normal. If the elderly hypoglycemia, low blood sugar will affect the heart, brain function. 2 hours after meal blood sugar is not more than 140 milligrams.
Diabetes is a metabolic disorder of sugar-based diseases. Therefore, good blood glucose control is to prevent diabetes and its complications lies. In the living habits and diet, the better not to smoke, not drink, eat low-salt, low fat, low sugar food, to enhance physical exercise, while also on a regular basis to the hospital for examination, adjustment of treatment.
So majority of people with diabetes should not be too disappointed, in fact, diabetes itself is not terrible, as long as stable controlling blood sugar, high quality of life can still go on.
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