Preventing
A Diabetes Complication
For Your Future Diabetic Health

Even though a diabetes complication can be shown affecting any of the organs, tissues, blood vessels plus other parts all over the body, for your own diabetic health, continuous visits with your health care team (such as your eye doctor, foot doctor, endocrinologist, family doctor plus any others) can yield greater control which ultimately leads to improved health, energy and vitality.

What Is A Diabetes Complication

Predominantly though, type 2 diabetes does lead to some universal symptoms without controlled blood glucose levels. So in its continually advancing stages, expect to see some of the following signs:

• Heart Disease/Increased Risk Of Heart Attack: there is a long list of symptoms you may notice, but usually only one or two of these signs will actually be felt or seen. Often the symptoms may be steady for approximately 5 minutes or could come and go. Women though often show a different set of symptoms or possibly nothing very noticeable at all
  • pain in the chest area which spreads into the left arm, shoulder and jaw

  • chest tightness or pressure

  • stomach pain

  • indigestion

  • shortness of breath

  • nausea and vomiting

  • cold sweats

  • unexplained anxiety

  • lightheaded- feel like you want to faint

  • unexplained feeling of fatigue and weakness

  • sudden out of control blood sugars

  • "antsy"- you keep moving around, you can't settle down

  • face is pale or gray

  • face suddenly looks like you have aged a few decades in the mirror

If any of these signs last longer than 5 minutes call 911 immediately. Another safety precaution, keep a bottle of uncoated adult aspirin in your house or crush regular aspirin and place in water. Drink this mixture AFTER you call 911. Aspirin will slow the formation of blood clots and helps to dissolve any that are forming.

• Retinopathy: Eye disease

• Neuropathy: Nerve disease

• Nephropathy: Kidney disease

• Increased incidence of Infections: this is a common diabetes complication which usually starts in your mouth or feet first. An increased incidence of loose teeth and gum disease, foot sores and blisters or dry cracked skin which becomes infected. High sugar levels reduce the effectiveness of the white blood cells which are responsible for fighting off bacteria and viruses.

So with proper care, continuous monitoring of your blood sugar levels and a few lifestyle and dietary changes, any serious diabetes complication is usually controlled or prevented with some simple at-home care techniques.

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