Are you diabetic and wondering what might happen if your diabetes progresses? Let's
examine six common complications of uncontrolled diabetes ! Coming up!
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complications let me just explain the difference between the two types of diabetes type 1 and
type 2 diabetes. In type 1 diabetes your pancreas cannot make insulin or makes too little insulin.
In type 2 diabetes the body's cells do not respond to insulin or your body cannot make enough insulin
or it is a combination of both of the problems i mentioned earlier. Insulin is a hormone
produced by your pancreas and moves the sugar from your blood like after a meal into cells where they
can be used as energy. You can think of insulin as a key helping glucose into these various
cells. Now what happens in Diabetes is your body fat cells, liver cells and muscle cells do not
respond well to insulin this is called insulin resistance. Your pancreas ends up producing more
insulin to try to push sugar into your cells, but it reaches a point when you can't keep up
and there's too much sugar in your bloodstream. How do you diagnose diabetes? (three common ways)
I have the units listed also used in other countries like in the UK in parentheses. One
if you're fasting blood sugar is 126 milligrams per deciliter( 7mmol/l) or higher if you have
symptoms of diabetes such as fatigue or urinating more feeling thirsty weight loss blood vision
and a random blood sugar of 200 milligrams deciliters(11.1 mmol/l)or above and three if
you have a blood test called hemoglobin a1c and it's 6.5 percent or above (48 mmol/mol). This
value measures your average blood sugar in the last three months. If you've been diagnosed with
diabetes or recently diagnosed with diabetes or dealing with diabetes it can at times feel
overwhelming and frightening. Diabetes is also called a silent disease as you really don't feel
diabetes, but it can lead to serious and life-threatening complications. What are six
common diabetic complications? One: cardiovascular complications. If you're a diabetic you're at an
increased risk of cardiovascular disease and its complications. This is because diabetes affects
your larger vessels and your smaller vessels with plaque formation and atherosclerosis. Blood flow
and oxygen supply to major organs are affected this can lead to problems like heart attack,
stroke or even death. Number two: eye complications. You're at an increased
risk for cataracts, glaucoma and vision loss. One of the reasons which can lead to vision loss
is a condition called diabetic retinopathy where the tiny vessels perfusing the back of your eye
are affected causing them to leak fluid or even blood. Three: Foot complications:
Diabetes can decrease blood flow to the feet and damage the nerves that carry sensation because the
nerves are damaged because of the lack of blood flow. This is called diabetic neuropathy. This can
affect the way you perceive pain and you had an increased risk of open wounds, fungal infections,
foot ulcers and callus formation. You might step on a piece of glass and you might even not even
feel it. Moreover, if the blood flow to your lower extremities and feet are severely affected
and your wounds do not heal because of poor circulation you're an increased risk of infection
and at an increased risk of loss of limb and digits. Yes, i'm talking about amputation!!
Number four: Kidney complications: Diabetes can harm your kidneys this is because the
blood vessels in your kidneys as well as the tiny blood vessels supplying the filtering units of
your kidneys become damaged over time because of high blood sugars. These vessels become narrower
and clog up. Number five: I'm going to clump all co-morbidities together, especially hypertension.
Given that diabetes is a systemic disease it is associated with many other comorbidities
I'll only list some of them as this video will become too long, but you should be aware of
these conditions these are hypertension, obesity, hyperlipidemia, hearing impairment, sleep apnea,
fatty liver, gum disease, memory problems, depression, eating disorders, anxiety and
even fractures. Although like diabetes you can't feel hypertension, high blood pressure stresses
your cardiovascular system and increases the progression of complications to your eye,
kidneys and your brain and in this way diabetes increases your chance of diabetic retinopathy,
kidney disease and kidney failure and a stroke. Number six: diabetic ketoacidosis. Well,
what does this mean? This condition can happen in type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes, but more
likely in type 1 diabetes. Here chemicals called ketones build up in your blood and make your blood
more acidic. This is because if insulin cannot be made by your pancreas the body is not able to
use up sugar. If sugar cannot be used as a source of fuel fat is used instead. Burning fat produces
ketones, however, if too many ketones are made it becomes toxic for your body. If you're interested
in how to tackle these diabetic problems click on this link above in a future video and here is
a playlist of videos looking at the most common diabetic medication Metformin and if you want to
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