17/10/2025
🔊DIABETES
Diabetes refers to a group of diseases that affect how your body uses blood sugar (glucose). Glucose is vital to your health because it's an important source of energy for the cells that make up your muscles and tissues. It's also your brain's main source of fuel.
If you have diabetes, no matter what type, it means you have too much glucose in your blood, although the causes may differ. Too much glucose can lead to serious health problems.
SYMPTOMS
👉🏼Increased thirst
👉🏼Frequent urination
👉🏼Extreme hunger
👉🏼Unexplained weight loss
👉🏼dizziness
👉🏼weakness
👉🏼Presence of ketones in the urine (ketones are a byproduct of the breakdown of muscle and fat that happens when there's not enough available insulin)
👉🏼Fatigue
👉🏼Irritability
👉🏼Blurred vision
👉🏼Slow-healing sores
👉🏼Frequent infections, such as gums or skin infections and vaginal infections in women.
CAUSES
🔥Over Weight
The more fatty tissue you have, the more resistant your cells become to insulin.
🔥Inactivity.
The less active you are, the greater your risk. Physical activity helps you control your weight, uses up glucose as energy and makes your cells more sensitive to insulin.
🔥Family history.
Your risk increases if a parent or sibling has type 2 diabetes.
🔥Age
Your risk increases as you get older. This may be because you tend to exercise less, lose muscle mass and gain weight as you age.
🔥Gestational diabetes
If you developed gestational diabetes in women during pregnance, your risk of developing prediabetes and type 2 diabetes later increases. If you gave birth to a baby weighing more than 9 pounds (4 kilograms), you're also at risk of type 2 diabetes.
🔥Polycystic o***y syndrome.
For women, having polycystic o***y syndrome — a common condition characterized by irregular menstrual periods, excess hair growth and obesity — increases the risk of diabetes.
🔥High blood pressure
Having blood pressure over 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) is linked to an increased risk of type 2 diabetes.
🔥Abnormal cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
If you have low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or "good," cholesterol, your risk of diebetes
COMPLICATION
complications of diabetes develop gradually. The longer you have diabetes — and the less controlled your blood sugar — the higher the risk of complications. Eventually, diabetes complications may be disabling or even life-threatening. Possible complications include:
🥨Cardiovascular disease.
🥨Diabetes dramatically increases the risk of various cardiovascular problems such as:
🥨 coronary artery disease with chest pain (angina),
🥨heart attack
🥨 stroke
🥨narrowing of arteries (atherosclerosis).
If you have diabetes, you are more likely to have heart disease or stroke.
🥨Nerve damage (neuropathy).
🥨Excess sugar can injure the walls of the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that nourish your nerves, especially in your legs.
This can cause tingling, numbness, burning or pain that usually begins at the tips of the toes or fingers and gradually spreads upward. Left untreated, you could lose all sense of feeling in the affected limbs.
🥨Damage to the nerves related to digestion can cause problems with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation. For men, it may lead to erectile dysfunction.
damage (nephropathy). The kidneys contain millions of tiny blood vessel clusters (glomeruli) that filter waste from your blood. Diabetes can damage this delicate filtering system.
damage (retinopathy). Diabetes can damage the blood vessels of the retina (diabetic retinopathy), potentially leading to blindness.
🥨Diabetes also increases the risk of other serious vision conditions, such as cataracts and glaucoma.
🥨Foot damage. Nerve damage in the feet or poor blood flow to the feet increases the risk of various foot complications. heal poorly. These infections may ultimately require toe, foot or leg amputation.
🥨Skin conditions. Diabetes may leave you more susceptible to skin problems, including bacterial and fungal infections.
🥨Hearing impairment.
🥨Hearing problems are more common in people with diabetes.
🥨Alzheimer's disease. Type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of 's disease. The poorer your blood sugar control, the greater the risk appears to be. Although there are theories as to how these disorders might be connected, none has yet been proved.📞+260974470018
