Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases caused by multiple causes, which are mainly characterized by high blood sugar. However, the harm caused by diabetes is not limited to the disorder of blood sugar metabolism.
The reason why after being diagnosed with diabetes, doctors will recommend that patients actively treat it, because diabetes can lead to various complications and may even cause fatal complications!
Relevant research and investigation show that there are more than 100 complications related to diabetes, and it is the disease with the most known complications. The five most common types of complications caused by diabetes are cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, peripheral neuropathy, diabetic eye disease and diabetic foot.
After the complications of diabetes, the patient's body will also have different symptoms. For example, the following five abnormalities are all reminders to patients that blood sugar is out of control and complications are finding you:
1. Blurred vision
Diabetic eye disease is one of its most high-incidence complications, due to the patient's blood glucose for a long time can not be controlled, the blood glucose index fluctuates repeatedly, causing damage to the blood vessels and nervous system of the eye, and eventually inducing a series of lesions. Patients may present with multiple symptoms such as vision loss, blurred vision, ghosting, and diplopia.
After that, the patient's retina gradually develops lesions, and the possibility of future cataracts and permanent blindness increases rapidly, which is the most risk factor for blindness in diabetic patients;
2. Foot ulcer, infection
The foot is one of the most specific target organs of diabetes, and the continued development of diabetes may cause foot sensory neuropathy, mild autonomy, and motor neuropathy.
Initially, the patient's foot perception will decline, and then affected by mechanical pressure, the foot due to the lack of normal neuroprotective mechanisms, so the ulcer will gradually appear, and the ulcer is often difficult to heal, and even cause further tissue damage.
At the same time, self-contained nerve dysfunction can also lead to skin and soft tissue damage, resulting in repeated invasion of the patient's foot by exogenous bacteria. If you do not seek medical treatment in time, the patient's foot ulcer surface will become larger and larger, and even lead to serious problems such as osteomyelitis and local gangrene of the foot;
3. Dizziness and headache
Relevant research and surveys have shown that diabetes has been affected for more than 5 years, and the probability of cerebral atherosclerosis in patients will increase to about 70%.
After developing atherosclerosis, patients can develop symptoms of dizziness, headache, forgetfulness, inattention, and neurasthenia that is not emotionally stable enough. If it is not detected and treated in time, it may also develop into asymptomatic stroke and acute cerebrovascular disease in the later stage;
4. Proteinuria
When diabetes affects the kidneys, the patient's renal interstitium and renal parenchyma may be damaged. Proteins that were originally macromolecules, as the glomeruli penetrate into the urine, cannot be reabsorbed by the renal tubules, resulting in a large amount of protein in the patient's urine, which is clinically called proteinuria.
When the patient urinates, it is obvious that there is a large amount of delicate, dense foam floating on the surface of the urine, and after a long period of placement, the foam has not disappeared.
5. Paresthesias
Diabetes mellitus with neuropathy, nearly 1/2 of patients will have associated symptoms, mainly manifested by burning pain in the limb, worry or needle-like pain, hyperesthesia or numbness, and often at night symptoms are obvious. When neuropathy affects the foot, hand and other areas, patients often feel that the hands and feet have the illusion of socks;
If the above five abnormalities have appeared frequently in the near future, it is likely that diabetic complications have found their own signals. For diabetic patients, they should always pay attention to physical changes, and once there is an abnormality, they need to seek medical treatment for examination at the first time.
At the same time, in order to reduce the chance of diabetic complications, patients should also actively cooperate with doctors for treatment, have excellent medication compliance, and regularly and regularly monitor blood glucose.