Everyone knows about diabetes. Everyone knows someone who has diabetes. However, when asked what diabetes is, not many people can explain it.
What is diabetes?
Diabetes is an illness of the body. A body sick with diabetes cannot deal with sugar. The sugar goes up and down. That causes a lot of trouble. A person with diabetes feels tired all the time. This person also is passing a lot of urine.
After some time a person with diabetes may become blind. Diabetes also causes kidney problems. A person with a kidney problem may need an expensive treatment called dialysis. Kidney problems may cause the person to smell urine all the time.
- Being excessively thirsty.
- Passing more urine.
- Feeling tired and lethargic.
- Always feeling hungry.
- Having cuts that heal slowly.
- Itching, skin infections.
- Blurred vision.
- Impotence in men
- Gradually putting on weight.
It is important for everyone over 40 to see a GP for a quick blood test. If you find out that you have diabetes early – you can better deal with it. You may start doing the right things and not get complications.
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