Understand complications of diabetes to prevent yourself from causing further severe damage.


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- Cardiovascular (heart and blood vessels) complications, such as: stroke, heart attack, and hypertension, mostly in type 2 diabetes.

Here, you must consider many other possible risk factors besides diabetes to cause these problems, such as: stress, smoking, lack of exercise, alcohol drinking, and high cholesterol and fats blood levels.

Optimizing your blood sugar levels, and eliminates all the above risk factors; you will see no such complications can be settled.

- Another subcategory of complications is Eyes damages, such as: early settling of cataract (the lens in your eye becomes cloudy), some difficulties in focusing, diabetic retinopathy (damage of retina, the behind part of eye).

Sometimes, these damages can lead to partly or completely blindness. All these eye damages occur earlier in those who have type 1 diabetes.

There are several medical solutions to all these damages, but the most important one is your totally control of your blood sugar levels.

- Neuropathy (damage of nerve) occurs when a person has been diagnosed more than 20 years from complications. But these nerve damages are irreversible and cannot be cured.

When it involves peripheral nerves, it may disappear as long as it appears, but some permanent injuries might be present, and diabetic people would become non sensitive to pain.

Mostly it happens in the below part of the feet, and it leads to several foot problems. But all these can be avoid if you recognize the complications of diabetes complications of diabetes and don’t let it go be settled.

- During diabetes, kidneys suffer due to Nephropathy, another among complications, more frequent in type 1 diabetes.

This happens because of the damage of kidneys from high blood sugar levels, but also, high cholesterol levels, high blood pressure, smoking, arteriosclerosis, frequent urinary tract infections.

But nowadays, recognizing early symptoms of diabetes, and better control of it, all these kidney damages can be avoid easily.



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