What are the complications of high blood sugar?

Hyperglycemia is an extremely serious disease. If it is not properly controlled, it will cause complications such as diabetic nephropathy and neuropathy. It will also affect the sexual life between couples.

1. Complications of diabetes - diabetic nephropathy

It is a disease that is extremely harmful to diabetic patients. The lesions may involve the renal blood vessels, glomeruli, tubules, and interstitium. Common kidney damage includes diabetic glomerulosclerosis, arteriolar nephrosclerosis, pyelonephritis, renal papillary necrosis, proteinuria, etc. Among them, diabetic glomerulosclerosis is a kidney complication unique to diabetes, which is usually called diabetic nephropathy clinically. Diabetic nephropathy is an important cause of death in diabetic patients.

2. Complications of diabetes - neuropathy

It is a general term for the various lesions of the nervous system caused by diabetes. It covers the autonomic nervous system, central nervous system, motor nervous system, peripheral nervous system and so on. Among them, diabetic peripheral neuropathy is the most common complication of diabetes. Peripheral neuropathy is further divided into polyneuropathy and peripheral neuropathy. The lesions may be unilateral, bilateral, symmetrical or asymmetrical. The prominent symptoms are numbness and distension in both lower limbs, accompanied by tingling and burning sensations, which are very difficult to bear. Some patients may experience spontaneous pain, lightning-like pain or knife-like pain.

Hyperglycemia complications affect couples' sex life

1. The impact of high blood sugar complications on women: high blood sugar can cause pain during sexual intercourse

Sexual dysfunction in men and women is an important factor affecting the quality of sexual life. According to a survey, about 50% of male diabetic patients will experience varying degrees of sexual dysfunction, which is higher than the proportion of female diabetic patients with sexual dysfunction. Zhang Ying said that high blood sugar itself can cause multiple complications, and various complications can affect the quality of sexual life. For female diabetic patients, due to poor blood sugar control or high blood lipids, they are often prone to macrovascular and microvascular lesions, which cause insufficient congestion of the vagina and surrounding tissues during sexual intercourse, thereby affecting sexual function.

2. The impact of hyperglycemia complications on men: Most ED patients suffer from diabetes

"For men, male diabetic patients are often prone to ED, which is also one of the complications of diabetes. It is caused by nerve and vascular diseases due to metabolic disorders." Zhang Ying said that almost all male diabetic patients over 50 years old with neuropathy have a tendency to have erectile dysfunction, that is, "impotence". This is because high blood sugar will continue to damage the small blood vessels and microvessels of the penis, and the nerve tissue cannot be normally supplied with nutrients, thereby losing normal conduction and sensory functions.