Today I will discuss the complications and dire aspects of diabetics. You have known in the previous post what is diabetic disease. The higher the blood sugar or glucose level of a diabetic patient, the higher the rate and severity of various complications in the body. Complications can cause various damage to your body and even cause your death. So keeping blood sugar or diabetics under control is very important.
Complications of diabetics at a glance.
- Peripheral nephropathy
- Nephropathy
- Retinopathy
- Various heart diseases like high blood pressure, heart failure, stroke etc
Also brain damage.
Now let’s try to understand what is peripheral nephropathy?
Peripheral nephropathy is loss of brain function in distant parts of your body. When you have more sugar than you need, it blocks the flow of blood and other nutrients, leading to a weakened immune system in distant cells. Because of this, your hand or toenails, fingers, sores in the space between the two fingers, and due to some reason the finger or nails die or rot, ganglion is seen and the skin is also wrinkled, if not treated properly in time and diabetics. If not controlled you may have to amputate your finger or any part.
Also, if you get an injury anywhere on your body, it takes a long time to heal, and the area can rot and catch, and the body’s feces can become discolored. Also, erectile dysfunction is a major problem in male diabetic patients. Proper erection of the penis is hindered in diabetic patients. Diabetics should be strictly controlled to avoid these complications.
Your gums can wear down and cause teeth to become loose and fall out. Sometimes the root of the tooth may bleed.
Now let’s know about nephropathy
Nephron means the structural and functional cells of the kidney. Due to diabetics, these kidney cells are damaged and reduce the GFR, increasing the excretion of sugars and proteins by the kidneys. It also creates an imbalance of various electrolytes in the blood, due to which high blood pressure is seen. High blood pressure puts pressure on the brain. Both ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes are seen due to diabetics. Heart failure can also be caused by stopping the function of the heart.
If you have kidney problems or reduced kidney function, it affects your heart, the heart rate increases, similarly, high blood pressure passes through the heart and affects the heart, which damages the kidneys. On the other hand, due to heart and kidney problems, the functioning of the brain is damaged, which later creates problems in different parts of the body.
Your body’s kidneys, heart, brain are all interrelated and if one problem affects the other.
Similarly if you eat high energy foods such as fast food or junk food. These are high calorie foods, your body can’t use all of these calories and the extra calories are stored in your body as fat, making you overweight or obese, which puts extra pressure on your heart to pump blood. Which indirectly damages the kidney by putting extra pressure on the kidney. And for those who are diabetics, this extra calorie means death.
Now let’s know about retinopathy
Retinopathy means eye vision problems. Retinal cells are similarly deprived of nutritional supply due to excess sugar in the blood of a diabetic patient. Energy generation within them is also hindered. Again, high blood pressure affects the cells of the retina, causing the cells to be severely damaged so that a diabetic patient suffers from vision loss, seeing less in the eyes. If diabetics are not controlled and if necessary measures are not taken, the patient may become blind at some point.
Watch all the videos and follow the guidelines of diabetics to stay healthy by keeping diabetics under control.