[Diabetes] 8 symptoms of diabetes, tips for prevention and control of diet

[Diabetes] 8 symptoms of diabetes, tips for prevention and control of diet

    Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease. Many patients do not experience obvious symptoms, but if left alone, the complications are often quite troublesome. Most of the complications of diabetes are caused by poor blood sugar control, so the most important thing for diabetics is to follow the doctor’s instructions to take medication or insulin, plus maintain good living habits, exercise more, do not smoke or drink, and have a light and balanced diet. Blood sugar can be effectively controlled.

    Speaking of diabetes, what do you think of? The top ten causes of death of Chinese people, insulin, eating more, drinking more, and urinating...

    None of this is wrong, but diabetes is far more complicated than you think. But don't worry, this article will let you understand the causes, symptoms and risk groups of diabetes, and then learn about prevention methods!

Highlights of this article:

* Causes of diabetes

* Diabetes symptoms

 

1 person dies of diabetes every hour

    Take Taiwan as an example, the prevalence rate of diabetes among people over 18 years old is 11.8%, and there are about 2.27 million diabetes patients nationwide. Diabetes is the fifth highest cause of death among Chinese in 2016, with 42.4 deaths per 100,000 people, which is equivalent to 1 person dying from diabetes every hour.
Why do you get diabetes?

    Insulin can bring the glucose in the blood into the cells and use it as energy for cell operation.
We can imagine that lychee is glucose, the court lady is insulin, and the imperial concubine is the cell. It is impossible for the imperial concubine to go to the market to buy lychees by herself, so the court lady is responsible for bringing the lychees to the concubine for consumption.

    There are two main factors that make glucose unable to enter the cells and stay in the blood, making blood sugar high.

Insufficient insulin supply in the body

    When the body's insulin supply is insufficient, glucose cannot be used by the insulin supply cells, and stays in the blood, which will keep blood sugar higher than normal. Type 1 diabetes is caused by your own immune system attacking pancreatic cells, resulting in insufficient insulin secretion.
Insulin resistance

    Insulin resistance is the abnormal ability of cells to use insulin. Insulin cannot effectively metabolize glucose, causing glucose to stay in the blood, and the kidneys cannot fully recover it and remain in the urine.

    Since cells cannot get enough energy, the body thinks it should make more insulin to carry glucose, so it makes insulin day and night. But the problem is that cells have already low response to insulin, so they still can’t get enough energy, and eventually the body will lose weight quickly.

    Ninety percent of diabetes is caused by insulin resistance. The cause may be related to excess fat, heredity, and old age.

    It is said that the imperial concubine (tissue cell) has been fed a lot of lychees (glucose) for a long time. Not only has she been tired of eating, but her body has gradually become plump, and she feels nauseous (insulin resistance) when she sees the maid sending lychees again.

    The emperor only saw the litchi piled up in the treasury, thinking that the maid (insulin) was not enough, and it was difficult to carry the litchi. Fearing that the imperial concubine was hungry, he recruited more court ladies (insulin) to transport lychees to the palace. But the imperial concubine doesn't want to eat it just doesn't want to eat it, and occasionally swallow one or two. So even though there are a lot of court ladies and a lot of lychees in the palace, the imperial concubine is getting thinner day by day. (Body tissues cannot absorb energy)

 

Diabetes symptoms

1. Eat more
2. Drink more
3. Polyuria
4. Weight loss

 

    The above warning messages are commonly referred to as the "three more and one less" of diabetes.

 

In addition, diabetes may have the following symptoms:

1. Easily feel fatigue, weakness and numbness in limbs
2. Itching of skin and sexual organs
3. Loss of vision
4. Reduced resistance, skin lesions, poor wound healing

    However, there are usually no symptoms in the early stage of diabetes. Nearly one-third of people do not know that they are already sick. Therefore, regular health checks are required to detect diabetes early.
Why do people with diabetes feel hungry and thirsty after eating a lot and drinking a lot?

    Even if a diabetic patient eats a large amount of food, the insulin does not respond well to the cells and cannot make glucose available to the cells, so the patient still feels hungry.

    In addition, the urine contains sugar, causing osmotic diuresis. When the urine volume increases abnormally, the body's water loss will accelerate and cause thirst. Therefore, if the blood sugar does not drop, thirst will continue.