Diabetes

What is diabetes?

Is the rise in blood sugar, which is a chronic condition caused by partial or total lack of the hormone insulin, which is a hormone secreted from the pancreas to help the sugar in the blood to enter the cells of the body where energy turns to help the body to move.

When less insulin in the body, the more sugar in the blood, the body can not benefit from it, so we see appears in the urine.

What are the types of diabetes?

There are two types of diabetes:

Type I diabetes in children or young people, the kind adopted in the treatment of insulin.

Type II: adult-onset diabetes, a type not supported in non-insulin-treated.

Diabetes and high blood sugar
What is high blood sugar in diabetics?
That high blood sugar in patients with diabetes is a state of frequent and chronic, and is the main objective in the treatment of diabetes to reduce the periods where there is high blood sugar. The extent of the patient's sense of high sugar symptoms varies from person to person, so there is difficulty in knowing the percentage of sugar in the blood through the symptoms of the phenomenon.
Can be defined hyperglycemia as an increase in blood sugar of 125 mg / d in the fasting state, and 200 mg / d.What are the symptoms of high blood sugar?

    Feeling tired
    With thirst, frequent urination
    Jink sight
    Bnmnma feeling or tingling in the fingers of the feet and hands
    Slow healing of wounds
    Contractions of the muscles
What are the symptoms of the sharp rise of the sugar with a high acid in the blood?

    Abdominal pain
    Smell the fruit in the mouth (acetone)
    Decrease in weight
    Frequent urination
    Drought in the skin and mouth
    The rapid rate of breathing
What are the causes of high blood sugar?

    Eating a large amount of food
    Lack of exercise or not to exercise the usual
    Not taking the treatment of diabetes
    Illness or injury, acute
    Falling under the psychological pressure
What is the treatment of high blood sugar?
If there was a rise in the proportion of sugar in the blood, you must think the reason that led to this increase, where possible to maintain the level of blood sugar level normal, by:

    Appropriate diet
    Carry out certain activities and exercises
    Taking sugar reducers according to the treating physician
Are there any other guidance?

    If you suffer from acute symptoms of sugar in the blood should contact your doctor immediately or go to the hospital immediately
    If blood sugar is high for a week and you do not know why, you should discuss this with your doctor.
    That the high simple sugar in the blood for short periods and limited is not dangerous and it happens all patients with diabetes, but when the sugar level remains high for long periods of time, the danger lies in the complications of diabetes
    The sugar in the blood reveals the level of sugar in the body and gives the actual value of the sugar.
    The examination of the urine reflects the high level of sugar in the body but does not give the actual value of the sugar.

Diabetes and hypoglycemia
When the blood sugar is low?
Sugar is low when the rate of blood in less than 50 mg / dL with the appearance of symptoms or their absence.
What are the signs of falling (low) blood sugar?
There are initial signs such as:

    Flicker
    Sweating of the body
    Rapid heartbeat
    Lack of concentration
    Hunger
    Nervous and strange behavior is a familiar
These signs must be taken very seriously and not be neglected because the continuing decline in the percentage of sugar in the blood can lead to the emergence of more serious symptoms such as:

    Seizures
    Loss of awareness
If there is any doubt that the appearance of one of these symptoms is the result of lack of sugar in the blood make sure you check the percentage of sugar in your blood during the onset of symptoms and do not hesitate to take a little sugar dissolved in water or any food or juice, a local if you do not have a test.
What are the causes of low blood sugar?

    Increase physical activity
    Increasing the dose of insulin
    Not to take an adequate amount of food after eating the treatment of diabetes
How can I act in the event of a fall in blood sugar?
Prompt treatment in this case if the patient is able to swallow:

    Eating two or two tablespoons of sugar in the water Mmabtan
    A half cup of fruit juice
    Third cup of the juice of any local, and if these symptoms go away within 10-15 minutes For the patient re-drink the same amount until the end of the symptoms
However, if the patient is unconscious should not attempt to give him a drink by mouth in order to avoid a choking and immediately transferred to hospital .