Early symtoms of diabetes can be very mild; you might not even think that you have anything wrong. Catching this disease early can help you from developing any of the complications. Some of the symptoms of diabetes are feeling tired all of the time, being very thirsty, unexplained weight loss, eye sight being blurry and being irritable most of the time.
Type 1 and type 2 diabetes can have the same symptoms, but the cause of the lack of glucose to your body’s cells is different. Type 1 diabetes is caused from the insulin producing cells that are no longer working. Type 2 diabetes is caused from the fact that your cells are resistant to the insulin. There are more cases of Type 2 diabetes than type 1 diabetes.
Your weight loss is caused partly by the loss of water in your body. You can lose so much water that you may become dehydrated. This is the reason for so many trips to the bathroom. You are getting rid of water and excess sugar.
This feeds the need to drink a lot. You will feel as though you cannot get enough to drink. Your brain is sending signals to drink more due to the fact that your kidneys are tying to get rid of the extra blood sugar by flushing out the body. This is why your body sheds so much water.
An other symptom of diabetes is your wounds will not heal well. This is caused from your white blood cells not functioning the right way. This inhibits them from cleaning up any dead cells from any wounds, and not killing off bacteria, as they should when working properly. Usually you will have this kind of trouble with your feet or possibly your hands. This is not helped by the fact that your blood flow may become impaired.
Weight loss is caused from diabetic ketoacidosis. Your body will burn fat as its energy source instead of the glucose due to insulin insufficiency. This happens not matter what you eat. High protein dieters will eat very little carbohydrates to do this very same thing to burn fat. But with diabetes, you can live on carbohydrates and still lose weight.
Type 2 diabetes is called Adult onset diabetes. Ninety percent of non-insulin dependent people with this type of diabetes can be cured just from diet and weight loss alone. Over eating simple carbohydrates, processed wheat flower foods, and sugar are believed to be the main cause of type 2 diabetes. These will have to be avoided altogether with typ2 diabetes.
Adult onset diabetes is called this because in the earlier days only adults got it. Now with a lot of the young kids and teens being over weight, they are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes also. Obesity goes hand in hand with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes could be easily avoided by just eating healthy and getting some exercise.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by a break down in the bodies defense system. Pancreas cells get destroyed and can no longer make insulin. Type 1 diabetes is an insulin dependent disease. You have to have insulin injections to keep your blood sugar levels correct.
