Signs Of Diabetes

Signs of diabetes present in different ways and if noticed, should be acted upon immediately to prevent the often damaging and debilitating effects like blindness, heart disease, and kidney failure.

Are you exhibiting early signs of diabetes?

How do you know if you are developing diabetes? There are some classic early signs of diabetes that will help you make that first decision to go to your health provider for more tests. These are:

Polyuria:

Are you making frequent visits to the bathroom but feel like you need to urinate all day long? This is because you have too much glucose in your blood. Since the insulin deficiency prevents your kidneys from filtering glucose back to the blood, they have to draw more water out of the blood to dilute the glucose they have retained, hence keeping your bladder full. Polyuria is one of the classic signs of diabetes.

Polydysa:

Are you drinking water but still feel thirsty? If it is combined with the constant urge to urinate, it may be caused by the constant removal of water from your blood into the kidney to cope with increased glucose is making you dehydrated.

Polyphagia:

Do you feel hungry no matter how much you eat? Excessive eating is caused by the high insulin level in your body. As insulin helps in hunger stimulation, this makes you hungry and you eat much more. These are the most immediate signs of diabetes.

Others that are likely to follow are weight loss, weakness and fatigue, tingling, numbness in the hands, legs or feet as a result of nerve damage, blurred vision and skin infections.

Signs of diabetes in children

How do you know if your child has diabetes? In addition to the common signs of diabetes, your child may exhibit the following:

•  Constant weakness and fatigue, leading to disinterest in activities, excessive
sleep, lethargy and difficulty in waking up

•    Constant complaints about headaches, stomach aches

•    Disorientation and confusion, irritability and mood swings

•    Sticky discharge in urine for children as young as 2 to 3 years which indicates that there is too much sugar content

•    Increased frequency of bed wetting

A combination of these classic signs of diabetes in children should prompt you to seek medical intervention immediately.

Do you have gestational diabetes?

There is a type of diabetes that usually affects pregnant women, who have had no prior history of the disease. This is gestational diabetes, whose signs could be similar to the ones mentioned above. You may exhibit signs such as increased nausea, blurred vision, vaginal and bladder infections and excessive fatigue. As a pregnant woman, you should take quick action because for a pregnant woman, you are regulating blood levels for your unborn child as well. Do not be fooled by these signs which closely resemble those of a normal pregnant woman. Go to the doctor and confirm that they are not signs of diabetes