A 29-year-old young man suddenly fell into a coma at home, and his family initially thought that he had a stroke and rushed him to the hospital, but through examination, the doctor found that the culprit who caused the young man to suddenly fall into a coma was not a stroke at all, but diabetes.
Why, diabetes can also cause coma? Many people can't believe it.
Diabetic hyperosmolar coma is a clinical syndrome of severe hyperglycemia caused by the increase of insulin counterregulatory hormone and the release of liver glucose, and the increase in insulin counterregulatory hormone and the release of liver glucose, which causes plasma hyperosmolar dehydration and progressive impairment of consciousness due to hyperglycemia.
Most of the time, people only pay attention to the chronic complications caused by diabetes, but ignore the acute complications caused by diabetes, among which diabetic hyperosmolar coma belongs to one of them, and the other is diabetic ketoacidosis.
If these two acute complications are not detected and treated in time, then they can be life-threatening in a very short period of time.
Why does a 29-year-old young man suffer from diabetes? Many people first think of type 1 diabetes, type 1 diabetes is a kind of diabetes caused by the destruction of pancreatic β cells and absolute lack of insulin, which generally begins in adolescence, and this kind of diabetes is closely related to genetics, but in fact, after further examination, the doctor finally determined that the young man was suffering from type 2 diabetes.
This 29-year-old young man, 12 years ago when he was in college, the results of the physical examination were normal, 12 years, due to unhealthy living habits, caused his weight to soar, 1.70 meters tall, now weighs as much as 200 pounds, 12 years ago, his weight was only 100 pounds, 12 years has increased 2 times.
Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition caused by inadequate or reduced insulin use that is common in adults and is also called adult-onset diabetes. This disease is mainly caused by environmental factors such as lifestyle, overnutrition, lack of physical activity, etc.
According to the 2021 Global Diabetes Map released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), the number of adult diabetes patients in the world reached 537 million in 2021, and the number of diabetes patients in China has reached 140 million, ranking first. This equates to 1 in 10 people with diabetes.
Not only is the number of people with diabetes increasing year by year, but a new trend is getting younger and younger.
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology by a team from the University of Diabetes and the University of Glasgow also found that the earlier you are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, the shorter your life expectancy may be.
The team looked at data from about 1.5 million participants from two major international study cohorts (the Emerging Risk Factors Collaboration and the UK Biobank) and found that life expectancy was reduced by about four years for every 10 years of developing type 2 diabetes. In particular, people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at the age of 30 may have a shorter life expectancy of up to 14 years.
This study raises the very real question that the earlier the age of onset of diabetes, the lower the life expectancy.
The scariest thing about diabetes is its complications, which are chronic complications in addition to acute complications.
These chronic complications include damage to the eyes, damage to blood vessels, damage to nerves, damage to the kidneys, damage to the skin, damage to the feet, and once complications occur, they are often irreversible.
As a result, most people with diabetes live a shorter life, often dying of complications.
As we all know, the treatment of diabetes is very difficult, although many hypoglycemic drugs have been born, including oral drugs and subcutaneous insulin, but relying on drugs alone cannot control blood sugar well, and it is also necessary to maintain good lifestyle habits, including diet control and exercise.
Many people let him take medicine every day, which is easy, but it is very difficult for him to maintain good living habits for a long time. This is also the reason why many diabetic patients have not been able to control their blood sugar well despite taking a lot of medicine.
1. If you want to stabilize your blood sugar, you must keep your mouth shut
All diabetic patients should unswervingly adhere to the diabetic diet and stay away from high-salt, high-fat and high-sugar foods, including pickled foods, smoked foods, fried foods, thick broths, fatty meats, animal offal, various desserts, etc.
If you can't control your mouth, then no matter how much medication you take, you won't be able to control your blood sugar.
2. If you want to stabilize your blood sugar, you must keep exercising
Exercise can better control a person's weight, in fact, many young people suffer from diabetes, not because insulin secretion is not available, but because obesity leads to insulin resistance.
Therefore, for young diabetic patients, as long as they are determined to open their legs and control their weight, insulin resistance is not resistant, and they are sensitive, and their blood sugar will naturally drop.
3. Monitor blood sugar dynamically, and go to the hospital for regular checkups
For diabetic patients, they can't judge their blood sugar by feeling, they should monitor their blood sugar dynamically, and they should know their blood sugar well, and the purpose of regular hospital checkups is to find out the complications of diabetes in advance, and don't wait until the complications are very serious.