Diabetes, if not treated or not treated properly, can have very serious health complications, here they are.
Millions of people in Italy are fighting with the diabetes. It is a disease that causes an excess of sugar in the blood, which is naturally harmful to health. This concentration is measured by blood glucose with a simple blood test. There is type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 is a dysfunction of the pancreas in which it is unable to produce enough insulin, the hormone that regulates sugars.
On the other hand, type 2 is different and is more dependent on the person’s obesity, lifestyle and poor diet. There is no cure, only gods treatments more or less effective with the collaboration of the person himself to control what he eats and his habits.
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If this disease is not treated in the right way the risk of complications for health, even severe, it rises considerably. Unfortunately, this is a condition that can affect other organs in the body.
Complications of Diabetes: Everything That Can Happen
Diabetes can cause acute or chronic health complications. Let’s start by analyzing those acute. These are:
- Hypoglycemia: a too sudden drop in blood sugar levels due to incorrect treatments can lead to dizziness, then convulsions and, finally, loss of consciousness;
- Respiratory infections: pneumonia occurs in most cases;
- Diabetic ketoacidosis: the liver converts fat into acid and pours it into the blood, endangering the person’s life;
- Diabetic coma: this can occur if there are too large fluctuations in the blood glucose value.
Instead, the type complications chronicwhich manifest themselves over time, even after years, are the following:
- nephropathy diabetic: chronic kidney problem;
- retinopathy diabetic: blindness;
- Encephalopathy diabetic – the brain can develop dementia;
- Cardiomyopathy diabetic and disease macrovascolare: can lead to heart attack;
- Diabetic foot: the formation of ulcers and, in severe cases, the loss of some limbs.
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The expert advice, however to avoid all this is to always follow the instructions of the specialist, to constantly monitor the blood sugar level with the appropriate tools, even at home. Avoiding smoking and hypertension is very important, just as it is essential to try to move a little and have a diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, cereals and everything that a nutritionist and a diabetologist will suggest.