If you feel these, you may be in the early stages of diabetes – don’t forget the signs!

How can you know if you have diabetes? Most of the early symptoms associated with higher than normal levels of glucose, a type of sugar, in your blood…
Diabetes has several warning symptoms, which, however, can be so mild, so you don’t notice in time. This is even more true for the type-2 diabetes. Some people don’t understand that they have, before you develop problems from long-term damage caused by the disease.
With type 1 diabetes, symptoms usually occur quickly, within a few days or a few weeks and is much more serious.
Diabetes: Common symptoms
Both types of diabetes have some common warning signs:
Hunger and fatigue. Your body converts the food you eat into glucose, which your cells use for energy. But your cells need insulin to metabolize the glucose. If your body does not produce enough insulin or if your cells resist the insulin your body produces, the glucose can’t penetrate this, and so you don’t have energy. This may make you more hungry and tired than usual.
Increased frequency of urination and thirst. The average person urinates 4-7 times in 24 hours, but people with diabetes can visit the toilet much more often. Why? Normally, the body absorbs the glucose as it passes through the kidneys. But when diabetes increases the sugar in your blood, your body may not be able to absorb it all. So, trying to eliminate through the urine and do it with increased frequency.
Dry mouth, and itching of the skin. Because your body uses fluids to produce urine, have less moisture for other things. Diabetes makes a person to be more dehydrated, feels his mouth dry and wants to drink more fluids, and the skin will be more dry and itchy.
Blurred vision. The change in the level of fluid in the body can make the lenses in the eyes to swell up. So the eyes change shape and lose their ability to focus.
Diabetes-type-1: Additional symptoms
Unexplained loss of weight. If your body cannot get the energy it needs from food, it will start to burn muscle and fat for to find it. So you can lose weight even if you don’t have to change anything in your diet.
Nausea and vomiting. When the body burns fat, creates “ketones”. These may accumulate in the blood to dangerous levels, something that, possibly, evolve into a life-threatening for the person’s life situation, which is called diabetic ketoacidosis. The ketones can make the person feel sick in the stomach.
Diabetes type-2: Additional symptoms
These tend to appear after the level of glucose in the blood remain high for a long period of time.
Infections of yeast. Both men and women with diabetes can get. The yeast feed on glucose, so a body has in abundance are more prone to them. These infections can grow in any warm and at the same time liquid point of the skin, such as between the fingers and toes, under the breasts, and in or around the genitals.
Slow healing wounds, or abrasions in the skin. Over time, high sugar levels in the blood affect the flow and lead to nerve damage which makes it difficult for your body to heal the wounds.
Pain and numbness in the legs, or the soles of the feet. This is still a result of damage to the nerve.
Blood sugar: The normal range for adults
For all of the above is wise, not only to know what are the normal values for blood sugar, depending on the age, but also to take care to take regular measurements (people with diabetes can do, and many times in the day, but all the rest of us have to do it with regular blood tests).
The main purpose of the measurement of glucose (sugar) in the blood is to help us in the prevention of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. If the levels are consistently low or high, you should discuss possible treatment with your doctor.
See what are the normal values for blood sugar for people who are 20 years and over:
Blood sugar fasting: Below 100 mg/dL
Before meals: Between 70 mg/dL and 130 mg/dL
After lunch (1-2 hours): Less than 180 mg/dL
Before any physical exercise: If you are taking insulin, then you need to be at least 100 mg/dL
When you fall asleep: Between 100 mg/dL and 140 mg/dL
Notes:
-As a rule we measure the normal price when we don’t have anything to eat (only water) for at least 8 hours. This is the value of blood sugar fasting and should not be never bigger than 100 mg/dL.
-Any measurement above 180 mg/dL or below 50 mg/dL is considered dangerous and you should contact your doctor.
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