Chronic complications
- Cardiovascular diseases: Diabetes significantly increases the risk of various cardiovascular problems, including coronary artery disease associated with chest pain, angina, heart attacks, or atherosclerosis.
- Nerve damage: Increased sugar negatively affects the walls of small blood vessels that nourish the nerves, resulting in long-term damage.
- Nephropathy: Kidneys contain millions of capillaries, called kidney glands, which remove waste from the blood. However, diabetes can cause many damage. It can cause kidney failure, which may require washing. Kidney or kidney transplantation.
- Retinopathy: Diabetes is a risk to the retinal blood vessels, leading to blindness. This is known as diabetic retinopathy, and can lead to cataracts or glaucoma.
- Foot damage: Diabetic nerve damage in the feet, and can weaken blood flow to them, increasing the risk of various foot complications.
- skin diseases: Diabetes makes people more susceptible to skin problems, including bacterial and fungal infections.
- Hearing injury: Hearing problems increase in people with diabetes.
- Alzheimer’s disease: Type 2 diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
- brain attack : Normal levels of blood pressure, blood glucose, and cholesterol must be maintained, in order to avoid the risk of stroke.
Complications are acute
Diabetic ketone acidosis
The complications of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) with type I diabetics are due to lack of insulin. These complications develop over several hours, and several symptoms arise, including:
- The level of blood sugar is between 300 and 600.
- The smell of breath is like the smell of fruit.
- Fatigue, lethargy.
- Thirst.
- Causing a coma, or death.
Coma high luminescence osmosis
A high coma, or as it is called (HHNS), is a serious condition that occurs with type 2 diabetics, especially the elderly, and usually requires going to the hospital. The most important symptoms are:
- High blood sugars to more than 600.
- Low fluid intake in the body.
- Frequent urination.
- Idle, sleepy.
- In some cases it is possible to cause coma, or death.