Diabetes Symptoms

Sep 152010

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Diabetes is usually called as a silent killer, since most often in initial period; there won’t be any alarming symptoms at all. Also patients use to get accustomed to the situation, i.e., with more water and food. So unless otherwise one goes for screening with lab investigations, one cannot rule out the diabetes. Also, its symptoms presentation will differ from one another according to heightened levels of sugar in blood. Anyhow, common warning diabetes symptoms are

Voracious thirst and excessive fluid intake (medically termed as Polydipsia)
Increased hunger / appetite (Polyphagia) and craving for sugar
Unusual weight loss or obesity
Exhaustion /tiredness with tremors
Sweet smelly urine
Dryness of skin (with or without itch) and mucous membrane
Development of recurrent boils
Delay in wound healing / gangrene formation
Blurred vision

In diabetes, the body is inefficient and sometimes unable to use glucose for fuel. The body switches over to metabolizing fat, partially or completely, as a fuel source. This process requires the body to use more energy. The end result is feeling fatigued or constantly tired.
People with diabetes are unable to process many of the calories in the foods they eat. Thus, they may lose weight even though they eat an apparently appropriate or even excessive amount of food. Losing sugar and water in the urine and the accompanying dehydration also contributes to weight loss.
High blood sugar resists the flourishing of WBC, (white blood cell) which are responsible for body immune system. When these cells do not function

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