Diabetes Symptoms

Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs because the pancreas does not produce the amount of insulin the body needs, or the manufacture of inferior quality. Insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas, is the main substance responsible for the maintenance of appropriate values of blood sugar. Allows glucose to be transported into cells so that they produce energy or store glucose until their use is necessary. When it fails, causes an excessive increase in sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia).

The main symptoms of diabetes include:

    * Urination frequency (the phenomenon of "bed wetter" in children).
    * Unusual hunger.
    * Excessive thirst.
    * Weakness and fatigue.
    * Weight loss.
    * Irritability and mood swings.
    * Feeling sick in the stomach and vomiting.
    * Frequent infections.
    * Blurred vision.
    * Cuts and scratches that do not heal, or heal very slowly.
    * Tingling or numbness in hands or feet.
    * Recurring skin, gum or bladder.
    * Also found high levels of sugar in the blood and urine

In fact, the scientific name of the disease is diabetes mellitus, which means "honey."

Diabetes affects 6% of the population. The chances of contracting it increase as a person grows older, so that for over seventy years, have about 15% of people.

It is essential to educate patients to control their diabetes properly, it can lead to other diseases as or more important than the diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurological retinopathy (Eye infection that can lead to blindness) and nephropathy (kidney disease).

The time of onset of the disease and the causes and symptoms that patients depend on the type of diabetes involved.