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Diabetes

There are two types of diabetes, and these are Type I or IDDM and Type 2 or adult-onset diabetes. In both kinds, there is far too much glucose in the blood, and inadequate insulin getting to the cells. In Type I diabetes, the hyperglycemia or extraordinarily high level of sugar in your circulation is because of an absence of insulin. In NIDDM, the hyperglycemia is due to the cells becoming resistant to the insulin. There are a number of symptoms that are associated with diabetes, below are of them below.

Symptoms of diabetes

Frequent trips to the bathroom to urinate - If you or someone in your family is visiting the bathroom to pee much more frequently, consider getting an evaluation for diabetes. Frequent micturition comes as the body's response to lower the excess glucose in the blood. When insulin is nonexistent or ineffective, the kidneys are unable to pass filtered glucose back in your bloodstream. The kidneys will be overwhelmed by the excess sugar by diluting the glucose by drawing extra water from circulating blood. As a result, you will go to the bathroom more times within the day to pee.

Unquenchable thirst - In diabetes mellitus, unquenchable thirst occurs because the person's blood glucose levels are high and the kidneys are working at an increased rate to form more urine to remove the sugar. Due to the amount of fluid that leave the body through micturition, one can feel really thirsty and tries to correct the deficiency in fluid by having a lot.

Excessive hunger - Someone with uncontrolled diabetes can suffer from frequent hunger pangs, which causes them to eat a lot. A diabetic individual can experience this because the sugar that is should be converted in the cells as energy is instead removed out of the body through urine.

However, these symptoms may also be seen in other ailments. To make sure that you or a member of your family has diabetes, tests must be performed. Currently, there are three laboratory tests used to diagnose diabetes, namely, fasting plasma glucose test, oral glucose tolerance test, and random plasma glucose test. A random test showing blood glucose level of 200 mg/dl or greater, in addition to the presence of the three symptoms, can indicate that one has diabetes. Among the three, the Fasting Blood Glucose or FPG test is the preferred test as it is often the most hassle-free and cheap. This will entail a blood extraction after a number of hours of not eating or drinking anything. Then again, Oral glucose tolerance test, though inconvenient because it requires fasting and taking glucose orally, is more sensitive than the other tests for finding out if one has pre-diabetes.For more information on diabetes please click here.

Diabetes is a dangerous illness, and it can greatly impinge on one's quality of life if left unmanaged. Therefore, early detection and prompt management is extremely important. Now that you have learned about diabetes, learn about how to manage it by clicking here.

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