Ways to detect diabetes at early stage

Diabetes is a tricky disease. It seems like just one name but it leads to various other illness during the course of the disease. Some serious health conditions include eye problem, kidney failure, heart disease and many more. It is better to be cautious than to suffer in the long run. Let’s check out 6 early symptoms of diabetes.

1. Urinating often

   Peeing often is the most common symptom of diabetes. A normal person urinates 4 to 7 times in a day. If it happens more than this, you surely need to keep a check. Also, see if you are urinating more times during your sleep. Excess sugar that is not absorbed by the body is excreted out in the form of urine. When your kidney couldn’t handle more work, it starts to deteriorate.

   

2. You drink more water than usual   

    An average person drinks 3 liters of water in a day. Anything more than that is considered to be abnormal. Due to the excessive urination, our body tends to become dehydrated. Hence, water intake will be increased in a diabetic person.

   

3. Losing weight unexpectedly     

    Cells starve because of non-production of energy. Due to this effect, the body tends to think that you are famished. Therefore, it uses protein from the muscles to feed the cells. This weakens the muscle thus resulting in weight loss.

   

4. Feeling tired all the time   

   Sugar cannot enter the cell to produce energy. This results in less energy. Our body works overtime to produce extra energy to match up unbalanced sugar levels. Also, kidneys overwork and you lack sleep because of frequent urination. This all makes you very weak.

   

5. You are always hungry     

   Our body needs the energy to stay active. If it lacks energy, it signals our brain to eat. Due to blockage of sugar in the cell, our body thinks that we need more food to keep us energetic. So, it makes us long for more food. You might also shiver if you do not eat when you are hungry.

   

6. Limbs, eyes, and skin starts to misbehave       

   If you feel insensate or prickling feel in your hands or feet, you need to correlate and check with other symptoms. Excess sugar in the bloodstream will destroy the nerves which directly affects the blood circulation. This effect can be felt in our limbs.

   

   Icreased level of sugar in the blood can drain our cells. This makes our eyes to swell and affect our vision. So, it is advisable to keep an eye on your eye.

   

   Due to irregularity in blood circulation and dehydration from frequent urination, our skin might turn dry and start to itch more. The skin may also be blackened in some parts of the body.

   

   If you bump into something or cut your skin, it will take longer to heal. Skin can be repaired only with the blood. Due to a high sugar level in blood, arteries and veins are affected a lot. This results in poor blood circulation. So it takes more time than usual to fix an injury.

   

   Watch for these symptoms and treat diabetes before it worsens our body. Take care and stay healthy.