Type 2 diabetes symptoms are not always easy to identify unless they become more pronounced.
90 to 95% of adults who show type 2 diabetes symptoms are diagnosed with the illness. Diabetes results from the body's inability to break down blood sugar or glucose. The disease is largely attributed to the sedentary lifestyle and fast-food culture, but identifying early symptoms is the key to diabetes management, abqjournal.com reported.
Healthy lifestyle choices can go a long way for reducing diabetes. Some of the basic awareness surrounding type 2 diabetes is monitoring and maintaining a healthy diet, exercising regularly, stress management, and quitting smoking.
Despite the scare behind type 2 diabetes, it develops gradually and reaches full blown levels at a slow rate. It may go unrecognized with mild symptoms. Frequent thirst and urination are early signs of diabetes. When there is excess sugar in the blood, tissues pull in water and this causes increased thirst. Thirst results in drinking more water and urination.
Insulin secreted by the pancreas is a hormone that assists in moving sugar into cells. When there is an insulin deficiency as in the case of early diabetes, increased hunger is triggered by depletion of sugar in your blood. In turn, muscles and organs are likely to be energy deficient. The hunger pangs are a way of compensating for the decrease in insulin and sugar.
The body also turns to muscles and fats for energy, when glucose is not properly metabolized. People with type 2 diabetes sometimes eat more than usual, but end up losing weight. Fatigue is another side-effect of depleted sugar and it contributes to irritability and tiredness.
Although blurred vision has not mentioned much in older studies, the body flushes fluids out from tissues in the body and this means fluids from the lenses are also drained. This makes it difficult to focus and strains your eyes. Along with that, patients who have type 2 diabetes tend to catch infections frequently, since the body is impaired of immune functions.
According to statistics, 1 in every 10 adults above the age of 20 suffer from diabetes. That number becomes more rampant at 1 in 4 among seniors above 65.
