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Diabetes Complications
Submitted by Thiruvelan on Wed, 2010-06-23 05:56
Some of the common diabetes complications are heart attack, stroke, blindness, kidney disease, loss of a toe or foot, and erectile dysfunction. But can be avoided by strict diabetes care.
Diabetes complications
Diabetes complications are begins with blood vessel and nerve damages, which is caused due to high level of glucose in blood (uncontrolled diabetes), prolonged diabetes, high cholesterol level and high pressure. Nerve damages of the respective organs are the root cause of diabetes complications.
- Uncontrolled diabetes can harm the nerves in your body causing diabetic neuropathy.
- Heart disease, stroke, heart attack are all caused by blockage of blood vessels causing lack of oxygen in extreme case breakage of blood vessels may happen.
- Diabetic retinopathy caused due to blood vessel damage in retina causing lack of blood circulation thus lack of oxygen to nourish retina and in extreme cause leakage of blood in retina.
- Diabetic Gastroparesis is disorder of stomach that takes too long to empty its contents it is caused by vagus nerve damage.
- Diabetes kidney disease are caused due to small blood vessel of kidney get damaged due to long run of high blood glucose.
- Erectile dysfunction or impotence is due to over all nerve damage, and also may be nerves in penis.
- Urinary incontinence, over active bladder, bladder problems are all caused by nerve damage due to prolonged high blood glucose.
- Urinary tract infection is also caused by nerve damage, but it is not directly related with nerve cause. Due to Diabetic Gastroparesis the food emptying is delayed, thus bacteria start growing and on it way it causes urinary tract infection. Also due to long term diabetes immune system loss it capacity thus not able to fight the infection.
Then how to safe gaurd against diabetes complications, it is simple be strict in your diabetes care and maintain your blood sugar level and A1C near normal.
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