KONTAN.CO.ID – Jakarta. Recognize the characteristics of type 2 diabetes early on. Recognizing the characteristics of type 2 diabetes can facilitate healing and prevent complications of other diseases.
Type 2 diabetes is a disorder in the way the body regulates and uses sugar (glucose) as fuel. This condition causes blood sugar levels to be too high, which triggers disorders of the circulatory, nervous, and immune systems.
Therefore, it is important for us to recognize the early signs of type 2 diabetes. Too late to recognize the characteristics of type 2 diabetes makes it difficult to cure.
Early signs of type 2 diabetes can include the following:
1. Frequent urination
The first signs of type 2 diabetes are frequent urination. When blood sugar levels are high, the kidneys try to get rid of the excess sugar by filtering it out of the blood. This can cause a person to urinate more often, especially at night.
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2. Increased thirst
The second early characteristic of type 2 diabetes is increased thirst. Frequent urination necessary to remove excess sugar from the blood can cause the body to lose extra water. Over time, this can lead to dehydration and cause a person to feel thirstier than usual.
3. Always feel hungry
The third early characteristic of type 2 diabetes is always feeling hungry. People with diabetes often don’t get enough energy from the food they eat.
The digestive system breaks down food into simple sugars called glucose, which the body uses as fuel. In people with diabetes, their body cells do not have enough glucose. As a result, people with type 2 diabetes often feel hungry.
4. Feeling very tired
The fourth early characteristic of type 2 diabetes is that you often feel very tired even though you are not doing strenuous activities. Type 2 diabetes can impact a person’s energy levels and cause them to feel very tired or exhausted. This fatigue occurs as a result of not enough sugar moving from the bloodstream to the body’s cells.
5. Blurred vision
The initial feature of the fifth type 2 diabetes is blurred vision. Excess blood sugar can damage small blood vessels in the eyes, which can lead to blurred vision.
This blurred vision can occur in one or both eyes and can come and go. If a person with diabetes goes without treatment, the damage to these blood vessels can become more severe, and permanent vision loss may eventually occur.
Those are some of the early characteristics of type 2 diabetes. Let’s identify the early characteristics of type 2 diabetes so that it doesn’t get worse and cause complications.
This article has been published on Kompas.com with the title “5 Early Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes that Are Often Unaware“,
Author : Ariska Puspita Anggraini
Editor : Ariska Puspita Anggraini
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