Symptoms of diabetes

Many people don’t have a particularly good understanding of diabetes. Diabetes is the name of a disease in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is a disease with a relatively high incidence rate and is quite harmful to human health. After becoming ill, patients often experience physical fatigue. Generally, it is caused by insulin deficiency in diabetic patients. In addition, it is prone to infection, skin abnormalities, etc.

1. Fatigue and weakness

This symptom is mainly because patients with diabetes lack insulin, and blood sugar cannot enter cells, causing the cells to lack energy. It is reported that 2/3 of diabetic patients have symptoms of weakness, even exceeding the number of people who suffer from emaciation.

2. Prone to infection

Due to malnutrition and long-term small diet, patients with diabetes mellitus are affected in their immune function, resulting in reduced resistance. They are prone to skin scabies, various inflammations of the respiratory, urinary and biliary systems, and are difficult to treat.

3. Abnormal skin sensation

This symptom occurs due to neurological complications in patients with diabetes. The patient's sensory nerve disorders cause abnormal skin sensations in the extremities of the limbs, such as crawling sensations, numbness, tingling, and itching, especially vulvar itching in women, which can be the first symptom. 4. Visual impairment

Diabetes can cause complications in various parts of the eyes, even resulting in decreased vision, amaurosis, blindness, etc.

5. Sexual dysfunction

Diabetes causes vascular and nervous system lesions and psychological disorders, leading to male impotence, female sexual indifference, menstrual disorders and other sexual dysfunctions.

6. Unexplained lower limb edema

The causes of this symptom are similar to those of decreased immune function. This is all because of the body's lack of energy and insufficient protein supplementation, which leads to a decrease in the body's protein content and the occurrence of low-protein edema.

7. Difficulty urinating

Low urination awareness, prolonged urination intervals, even difficulty urinating, increased residual urine in the bladder, and bladder distension are all reactions to diabetes.

8. Upper body obesity in women

Obese people are prone to diabetes. For women with upper body obesity, with waist/hip circumference greater than 0.7, more than 60% have abnormal glucose tolerance test results regardless of their weight. When the waist/hip ratio is greater than 0.85, a glucose tolerance test must be done because this situation is very likely to indicate diabetes. Signs of upper body obesity in women can be used as an important indicator for diagnosing diabetes. The above is all the content about the symptoms of diabetes mellitus. After reading it, do you know what it means to have diabetes mellitus? In daily life, you must discover and treat it in time so that you can get the best treatment. I hope the above symptoms of diabetes mellitus will be helpful to you.