Diabetes mellitus is one of the three highest diseases recognized along with hypertension and hyperlipidemia, and it has a variety of mechanisms. For example, long-term poor eating habits, long-term emotional tension, usually do not love sports, family genetics may cause diabetes.
After suffering from diabetes, if the patient does not strictly control blood sugar, blood sugar exceeds normal levels will cause chronic damage to the body and cause a series of complications.
Therefore, if diabetics find that they often have headaches, abdominal pain and other situations, they can not be regarded as trivial matters, and they should be vigilant that it is caused by neuropathy.
What neuropathy can diabetes cause?
1. Autonomic nerves
The autonomic nerve, also known as the autonomic nerve, is a conduction nerve in the fiber tissue of the internal organs.
If diabetics allow blood glucose to remain high for a long time, it will lead to cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, metabolic and urinary system damage to varying degrees, causing the function of the autonomic nervous system to decline. After the autonomic nervous system in different parts of the disorder, the patient's symptoms are also different.
Autonomic disorders of the gastrointestinal tract can lead to frequent bloating, frequent farting, constipation or diarrhea, loss of appetite; cardiovascular autonomic disorders can cause patients with rapid or slow heartbeat, orthostatic hypotension, and male patients may also have sexual dysfunction.
No matter which part of the autonomic nerve disorder, it will cause discomfort in the human body and affect the normal life of the patient.
2. Central nervous system
Long-term hyperglycemia can also cause damage to the patient's brain and spinal cord, which can cause abnormalities in central nervous system function.
This is a more serious situation, the incidence of clinical is relatively high, some patients will have muscle atrophy or muscle weakness, if not treated in time, the patient's spinal cord ganglia damage may cause walking disorders.
If the patient has a cerebral thrombosis, it will cause memory loss, may also cause aphasia and hemiplegia, and in severe cases, lose some or all of the cognitive ability.
3. Peripheral nerves
Lesions of peripheral nerves in diabetics can lead to impaired motor function. Early on, the patient may feel numbness, pain, or burning sensation in the lower extremities.
As the disease worsens, the sensory function of the patient's lower limbs will weaken, and when walking, there will be a feeling of stepping on clouds, cotton, and sometimes intermittent limping.
Some patients can not be found as soon as they have trauma to their feet, and because the sugar content in the blood is too high, the wound cannot be healed for a long time, and the risk of bacterial infection will be greatly increased.
Diabetes is a chronic disease, if the patient can control the blood sugar level, the damage to the body can be reduced, the patient has the opportunity to survive with the disease for a long time.
Therefore, what patients have to do is to control blood sugar in strict accordance with the doctor's instructions, adjust the diet structure normally, exercise regularly, maintain regular work and rest time every day, regularly monitor blood glucose levels and physical examinations, reduce the incidence of complications for themselves, and strive to live longer.