Hello dear readers. In my last article, I explained the definition of diabetes, its causes,
who is more common in it, how many types of diabetes there are, the
symptoms of diabetes, and gave brief information about type II diabetes (over time, it became type II). I
I will also talk about diabetes). In this article, I will try to explain how diabetes is diagnosed
and the dangerous consequences (complications) that await poorly treated diabetics
Fasting blood sugar is 126 in 100 milliliters of blood. If it exceeds milligrams, overt diabetes is diagnosed. If the fasting blood sugar is between 110 and 126 and the blood sugar is between 140 and 199 when measured two hours after loading with pure sugar, then it means that there is hidden sugar. A person diagnosed with latent diabetes must follow a diet just like a diabetic.
In this way, the emergence of overt diabetes is prevented or at least delayed.
A diabetic patient who does not pay attention to his diet and the treatment recommended by the doctor suffers the most damage to his veins and nerves. Damage occurs in whichever organ these vessels and nerves concern.
organs. In patients whose blood sugar is going well, the risk is not very high. The risk of heart attack or stroke in patients whose blood sugar is not working properly is much higher than in people who do not have diabetes.
The reason for this is the narrowing of the vessels due to rapidly progressing arteriosclerosis. As the blood flow through the narrowed vessels decreases and slows down, at the same time, due to the increased tendency of the blood to clot, not enough blood can reach the tissues, the relevant organs cannot be fed and cannot perform their duties. If the blood flow slows down due to narrowing in the vessels and clotting reaches the level of obstruction, then the obstruction in the cardiac vessels causes a heart attack, and the obstruction in the brain vessels causes a stroke. If the patient with diabetes
smokes, is obese, inactive, has high blood pressure, eats a diet rich in fat, and has high cholesterol-triglyceride levels, this risk is much higher. It is large and dangerous
. If the kidney vessels are damaged in the same way as the heart and brain vessels, the kidneys cannot be nourished and kidney failure develops. Patients with kidney failure due to diabetes may become dependent on dialysis or may need a kidney transplant.
In patients whose blood sugar levels are high and their capillaries are damaged, the nerve fibers are also damaged, the nervous system is disrupted, and the sensory nerves are damaged. If the sensory nerves are damaged, numbness-tingling-felt-burning occurs in the hands and feet, spreading from the fingertips upwards (especially to the areas where gloves and socks lie).
Patients express their distress by saying "I feel like I have socks on my feet and gloves on my hands and they are disturbing me."
Sometimes the patient suffers greatly because of these symptoms.
In some advanced cases, the patient loses the sense of pain, so much so that even if he has a heart attack, he may not feel chest pain.
However, the biggest symptom that brings the patient to the doctor after a heart attack is chest pain.
Patients with this condition should not go to the spa because they do not feel the heat in the hot pool.
They stay in the pool for a long time and burns occur due to hot water.
In other words, they get scalded. The decrease in the amount of blood in the foot veins, which are narrowed due to arteriosclerosis, causes excessive coldness in the feet. Even if the patient wears layers of wool socks, his feet do not get warm. He puts his feet at the bottom of the stove to get warm. In this case, his foot burns.
He does not feel the pain due to the burn, but he becomes aware of the situation with the smell of burning flesh.
Apart from the damage to the peripheral nerves that I have given as examples, there is also damage to the autonomic nervous system.
The autonomic nervous system is the nervous system that controls the functioning of organs such as the heart, lungs, bladder, stomach, intestines, sweat glands, and eyes, and operates involuntarily. The functioning of whichever organ the nervous system controls is disrupted.
For example, if the nerves related to urination are damaged, the bladder (urination to rb) control is impaired and the patient becomes incontinent.
. On the contrary, some patients cannot urinate and their bladder swells. In this case, the bladder can only be emptied with medical intervention. We teach these patients some maneuvers to help them urinate. If the nerves of the gastrointestinal system are damaged, intestinal dysfunction may occur, such as constipation or uncontrollable diarrhea attacks, or sometimes diarrhea and sometimes constipation, both of which occur periodically.
If the functioning of the stomach slows down, nausea-
vomiting attacks occur, a stomach churning sound occurs due to fluid accumulation in the stomach, and the patient becomes very restless.
. Patients who develop difficulty swallowing cannot eat comfortably. In patients whose mechanisms that prevent blood pressure from falling are impaired, blood pressure drops cannot be prevented when suddenly standing up
. Patients complain of dizziness, blurred vision and staggering when they stand up, get up from bed or sitting.
The body of patients whose sense of cold and hot (heat sensitivity) is impaired cannot adapt to temperature changes in the environment.
Patients with sweating disorders become susceptible to skin diseases.
Adjustment disorder occurs in the eyes when transitioning from light to dark or from dark to light.
Dear readers, it is possible to multiply these examples. I will continue to write about the negativities that diabetic patients may encounter if they do not follow a diet and do not receive appropriate treatment, the problems they will suffer in their quality of life, and even life-threatening systemic disorders.
I wish you a disease-free, trouble-free, healthy, happy and long life.
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