Diabetes causes effects and symptoms

Diabetes is a disease that impairs your body’s capability to produce or use insulin.

Insulin is a hormone. When a human body turns the food you eat into energy (also called sugar or glucose), insulin is secreted to help carry this energy to the cells. If your body starts to produce little or no insulin, or are insulin resistant, too much sugar resides in your blood. Blood glucose levels get higher than normal for people with diabetes. 

There are two mainly two types of diabetes referred as Type 1 and Type 2.

Type 1 diabetes causes when the immune system, the body’s system for attacking infection, attacks and destroys the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas. Doctors think type 1 diabetes is caused mainly by the genes and environmental factors, such as viruses, that might rise the disease.

Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes and caused by several factors, including genes and lifestyle factors.

Overweight, obesity and physical inactivity, Insulin resistance, Growing age are the main factors that cause type 2 diabetes.

Effects of diabetes on a human body Fatigue

Diabetes causes fatigue and it is one of the most frequent disabling diabetes effects. Diabetes fatigue can disturb and interfere with all phases of daily life.  High blood sugar in the body makes blood sticky, so it can’t get through the thin capillaries as easily to carry oxygen to cells. And make you feel fatigue. Other than that insulin resistance is also cause fatigue as it keeps glucose out of body cells, so they don’t have energy.

Prevention

·         Sleep better

·         keep your body hydrated (drink more water)

·         Try to keep your mind away from stress

Foot pain

For individuals with diabetes, having too much glucose (sugar) in their blood for a quite long time can give rise to some serious complications like foot problems. Diabetes causes foot pain and uncontrolled diabetes can harm your nerves. If you have injured nerves in your legs and feet, you might not feel cold, heat, or pain. Diabetes also alters the flow of blood. Poor blood flow in the armsand legs in the medical term known as peripheral vascular disease and if your body lack good blood flow, it takes more than normal for a sore or cut to heal.

Prevention

Check your feet daily - You may have foot problems, but there is no pain in your feet. Checking your feet every day will help you recognize problems early before they get serious. Wash your feet daily - Washing your feet with soap in warm, not hot, water to prevent any kind of infection as diabetes causes fungal infection. Smooth corns and calluses gently - Thick patches of skin called calluses or corns can grow on the feet. If you have corns or calluses, talk to your foot doctor and ask for the best way to care for these foot problems. Because if you have nerve damage, these patches can grow into ulcers as diabetes causes foot ulcers.

Always trim your toenails straight across - Trim your toenails, when necessary. Using toenail clippers, trim your toenails only straight. Do not cut into the corners because you may cut yourself and took more than hormal to heal back.