Taking care of your health and being aware of the slightest signs of the body is a way to prevent illness and prolong life. Thus, knowing the symptoms of diabetes, the main disease that affects Brazilians and kills millions of people around the world, is essential to maintain quality of life.
Some of the main symptoms are thirst, dizziness, excessive urination and weight loss. However, they may vary according to each patient's type of diabetes. While type 1 diabetes is more related to genetic factors, type 2 diabetes is related to poor diet and usually appears after forty years of age.
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In this context, when there are cases of diabetes in the family, it is important to do the fasting glucose test annually to monitor blood sugar rates. Or even, if you are experiencing symptoms, seek medical evaluation. Thus, follow some of the main symptoms of the disease.
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Main symptoms of diabetes
- Excess hunger and tiredness
As the main source of energy, sugar is not being well utilized by cells. affected by diabetes, people begin to feel excessively hungry and tired, even after they have fed.
- weight swing
Precisely because of excessive hunger, accompanied by fatigue and imbalance in the body of those who suffer from this disease, weight fluctuation is quite common. It is often possible to see people who lose weight easily and overnight due to diabetes.
- blurred vision
Excess glucose causes the lens in the eye to enlarge, changing its shape and flexibility. This makes the person affected with diabetes feel their vision blurred.
- Thirst and constant urge to go to the bathroom
People with diabetes tend to feel very thirsty due to the fact that the cells cannot absorb the sugar in the desired way, and so it ends up accumulating in the bloodstream. The kidneys then need to work faster to get rid of all the unprocessed sugar. Faced with this, people tend to feel more thirsty and urge to urinate.
It is worth remembering that these symptoms are quite general, and they may vary according to the type of diabetes presented by the patient. In cases of type 1 diabetes, for example, irritability and mood swings can also be considered symptoms.
Therefore, if you present any of these symptoms, it is important to seek a doctor and perform the blood glucose and fasting test.
