Diabetes Symptoms
What are diabetes symptoms?
Every family has its own shares of aunts and uncles, grand-dads and grand-moms that love sweets but can just appreciate its aroma from a distance. The only thing holds them back from having their beloved desert, Diabetes. But contrary to the prevailing myth, diabetes is not limited to the older part of humanity. Thanks to the fast-changing lifestyle, anyone among us, young or old, is equally vulnerable. Going by the motto “Precaution is better than cure”, look out for the following diabetes symptoms to see if you run the risk of having diabetes.
Signs of diabetes symptoms
Feel like throwing up?
An early alarm bell is a persistent feeling of nausea. If you vomit for no apparent reason for a number of times, don’t just fill in antibiotics or antacids and rest. Get your blood sugar levels checked. You may be harboring diabetes.
More water is less!
If you are always thirsty, and even gallons of water fails to quench the thirst, possibility is you are having diabetes symptoms. The concentration of glucose in the blood becomes unusually high, due to which the brain demands more and more water in order to dilute it. Use a sugar-level checking digital device to check your body sugar or visit your physician.
Loo all day long!
If the number of trips to the washroom has gone up, by your own set standards, it’s a warning signal again. As body glucose is way too much for the body to hold, it’s being discarded through repeated urinal discharges. It may counteract glucose, but leads to dehydration because of undue wastage of water from the body.
Where’s the energy?
The high-glucose level is partly because of the improper glucose utilization by the body cells. When the cells are unable to metabolize the glucose for energy, they start burning the reserved fat of the body to produce energy. But this process of fat-burning in itself consumes large amounts of energy, resulting into fatigue.
Extreme hunger!
Apart from an increase in thirst, diabetes also takes hunger to quite a height. This is the result of yet another defense mechanism of the body against high-glucose level. To compensate for extra glucose body produces large amounts of insulin which induces hunger.
Crazy Kg fluctuation
The scales on the weight machine going haywire. Weight fluctuation is another clear sign of the disease. The weight can go down because of the loss of water and metabolism, of all fat or, it can pick up, of course, because the insatiable hunger.
Wounds that will not heal
High-sugar levels in body damage the protective white army of the body, the White Blood cells (WBCs) and significantly impede their production in the body. This results in malfunctioning of the immune system and the healing of wounds are slowed down drastically, which another indication of diabetes symptoms.
Diabetes symptoms must be taken seriously
These are some common diabetes symptoms, which left unheeded, may lead to more detailed inflictions. It will look paranoid to some that one rush to the doctor for such trivial reasons, but why take chances?