Diabetes is a metabolic disease characterized by chronic increases in blood glucose levels, with complex and varied symptoms, which can be divided into two main categories: One is the expression associated with metabolic disorders, particularly “more than three” symptoms directly related to high blood sugar; the other is the manifestation of acute, chronic complications. The following are the specific symptoms that may be associated with diabetes:
Symptoms associated with metabolic disorders
1. Multiple urine: The increase in blood sugar exceeds the capacity of the kidneys to absorb glucose, resulting in increased sugar in the urine and permeability. This is reflected in an increase in urine and in the frequency of urination, which is even repeated every half hour for serious cases. 2. Typical symptoms can range from 5,000 to 10,000 ml for 24 hours, but older persons and persons with kidney diseases may not be visible. 3. Overdrinking: As a result of the significant increase in urine, the water in the patient is decreasing, leading to a high level of thirst, a significant increase in the amount and frequency of drinking water, which may be between 3,000 ml and 4,000 ml per day, but the symptoms of thirst are still not fully abating. 4. Over-eating: The relative or absolute insulin or insulin resistance has led to tissue cells using glucose, although blood sugar is increasing, but energy is still lacking. As a result, patients often feel hungry, their appetite increases and even doddles a day are not enough to satisfy their appetite, and they quickly feel hungry again after eating. 5. Decline in body weight: As a result of lack of energy, the body begins to decompose fat and protein for energy, leading to a decrease in body weight. This can be reflected in a monthly weight decrease of more than 4 kg. Once diabetes is well controlled under reasonable treatment, body weight decreases can be controlled and even recovered.
II. Other common symptoms
1. Weakness: Patients often feel all-powerless and infirm due to the inability to fully oxidize glucose, i.e., the inability of the human body to fully exploit glucose and to efficiently release energy, as well as the loss of water, electrolyte imbalances and negative nitrogen balances. 2. Fuzzy vision: high blood sugar can lead to changes in eye crystallized pressure, resulting in changes in crystallity and blurred vision. Early multifunctional changes generally occur, and once blood sugar is well controlled, the vision can be restored more quickly. Skin itching: Excessive levels of blood sugar in the body increase the amount of sugar in the skin, leading to pathological changes in skin microvasculars, reduced resistance to skin, dehydration of skin, and symptoms of skin drying and itching. This itching is often unbearable and is characterized by obvious itching. Neurosis: Long-term high blood sugar causes hemoglobin metabolic abnormalities and causes microvascular cycling disorders, which in turn leads to neurological ischaemic oxygen and functional damage. Patients often perceive pain at the end of the limbs, with light touch, an ant bite, burning, needle sting, which is visible at night. Symptoms such as arm, foot numbness, lack of temperature can also occur, usually symmetrical, with gloves or stocking distribution. 5. Symptoms associated with complications: Diabetes can also lead to a number of complications, such as diabetic foot, diabetic stomach palsy, diabetes myocardial disease, diabetes heart disease, diabetes kidney disease, etc., which can exhibit specific symptoms, such as diabetes sufficient to cause foot malformation, intermittent lameness, etc.
III. Special types of diabetes
For type 1 diabetes patients, there is an acute and significant rise in blood sugar, which tends to be typical of “more than three” symptoms. For the majority of type 2 diabetes patients, especially when the moderate blood sugar rises, there are often no visible symptoms, even if there is no discomfort, and these patients often find high blood sugar when they undergo health check-ups or when they are treated for other diseases. The symptoms of diabetes are complex and varied and may vary between patients. Therefore, it is recommended that patients suspected of diabetes be treated in a timely manner and examined in order to clearly diagnose them.
