Skin itching, early signs of diabetes?
Posted on December 6, 2009
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The main symptoms of diabetes is a multi-drink, eat, polyuria was wasting weak so-called “a little more than three.” However, the whole body or localized skin or frequent skin infections, it may be one of the symptoms.
Some diabetic patients because of skin infection or even to see a dermatologist, the only known diabetes.
Diabetes is a chronic endocrine metabolic disease. In recent years, medical research found that many lack the typical symptoms of diabetes during the period, or in a hidden, their skin is often the emergence of various anomalies.
Systemic or localized itching
Yu-Xuan, director of Medical Center, said Dr. Chen Jingzhou, in fact, is a skin itch symptoms of early onset of diabetes, one diabetic patients in dermatology or skin infections are common, some patients even looking skin infections in the skin when, before we know diabetes.
Early diabetic human skin itching is divided into systemic or localized disease site is uncertain, the incidence degree of inconsistency, but generally occur in multi-vulva, scrotum and other parts, especially the practice of female genital itching more common.
Meanwhile, Dr. Chen Jingzhou say, diabetes, skin itching caused by very hard for me, most will be a recurring problem, some patients because of unbearable itching, scratching post will Pipoxueliu, due to repeated scratching, the skin is a common scratches, blood scab may be secondary to dermatitis, the skin hardens, after the course of time, pigmentation, and some patients can be dry skin desquamation.
Can lead to diabetes patients cause of skin itch
Dr. Chen Jingzhou that lead to diabetes causes itchy skin often has 4 points:
First, the diabetic patients prone to getting infections around the nerve endings, resulting in hand-foot paresthesia, skin itching.
The second is poor microvascular circulation, local cell function is also worse.
Third, the blood sugar high, the growth of invasive fungal infection caused by the skin.
Fourth, diabetic patients to reduce sweat secretion but also because of excessive dry and itchy skin.
In order to protect the skin, diabetic patients should be very careful maintenance of the skin, such as the use nourishing fluid, nourishing the skin to prevent skin drying out.
To ensure that blood glucose in the normal range
Skin itching caused by many reasons, for recurrent patients, should take into account the possibility of diabetes. Found to have symptoms of itching, especially the elderly, if the long treatment of skin itching, and should make approaching a hospital, in order to clarify the cause, symptomatic treatment.
Dr. Chen Jingzhou said that if the diabetes-induced skin itching, should lower the blood glucose levels, control blood sugar, skin lesions is expected to recover. Not sure if blood sugar is too high, should go to a specialist hospital treatment to ensure that blood glucose in the normal range, only the blood glucose control is good, the skin can relieve itching and heal.
Most people think that the main symptoms of diabetes is a multi-drink, eat, polyuria was wasting weak so-called “more than three a little”, but there are many diabetic patients, especially the elderly are not the typical “three – one more little “symptoms, and thus even if sick, and also failed to attract attention.
Since pruritus is issued when the first symptoms of diabetes, so if find yourself a regular skin itching, you should be particularly careful and timely to the hospital for further examination for early detection of diabetes, so that their access to early treatment, more easily control the disease.
If there is no early detection of diabetes, delaying the best treatment timing, a long time of, human microvascular lesions occur in the affected tissue and blood vessels of the blood supply will be further complications, including heart disease, kidney disease, cataracts, etc..
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