Blood sugar levels have a direct correlation with the disease known as diabetes. The pancreas, a gland in the abdomen, produces the hormone known as insulin, which controls this.
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Here are 7 early symptoms that it is not the flu or stomach aches, but diabetes:
1. Increased hunger
Excessive hunger, or, polyphagia, as it’s medically known,
together with increased thirst and urination are the three most common
diabetes signs. When the body can’t convert the food to glucose – a
natural fuel for the organism, your body wants more food to make fuel
from. But that’s the trick, you will be hungry again and still don’t
feel enough energy!
2. increased thirst
After eating a chocolate or an ice-cream, you immediately feel
the urge to drink water, right? That’s exactly how your body feels
without the ability to process the glucose, and instead of being turned
to energy, it finishes inside your urine, taking along extra fluids from
your tissue!
3. increased urination
A normal adult pees between 4 and 10 times per day. However, anything above this is considered extreme (not if you’re pregnant).
4. blur vision
If you never had eye problems before, but your vision becomes
blurry and it is not just for a day, than you might have diabetes. It is
a result of shifting fluids and because your eye is wet, it makes them
swollen and the density of the liquid changes as well. Thee changes,
however, are not permanent, because as you stabilize the blood in your
sugar, the vision stabilizes as well.
5. slow healing process
If you have open wounds on your skin and it seems like forever
to heal, it might be because your high blood sugar increases
inflammation and also leads to poor circulation, not allowing the open
cut wound to be healed by rushing blood towards it. This would mostly
happen on your feet, as they’re the first thing we feel with poor
circulation.
6. dark patches of skin
This condition is medically known as “acanthosis nigricans”,
which in latin means dark patches of skin with a velvety texture. They
usually appear where the skin is folding in our body parts, such as the
armpits, inside the elbows, behind the knees and on the knuckle on the
fingers. This condition can also attack an average person, but it’s most
commonly treated as an early diabetes syndrome.
7. unexplainable weight loss
We spoke about increased hunger as an early diabetes symptom.
If you have this and still are not gaining weight, even more – you’re
losing weight, you definitely have diabetes and should consult your
doctor for a preventive treatment. This doesn’t actually mean you’ve
lost weight, but you lose liquids from your body, which are the first
things your body releases when its sugar levels are high.