Diabetes is one of the most prevalent diseases in the world today, and it is the most chronic diseases experienced by millions around the world of different ages and without a final treatment, and deliberately diabetes patients to take drugs according to his condition to improve the rate of delivery of sugar cells in the body , And to reduce the symptoms of the disease and reduce the damage and complications.
Long-term complications of diabetes, short-term or emergency complications that can be resolved by emergency medical care can be distinguished, while long-term complications can be avoided by adopting a healthy lifestyle to reduce disease progression.
Short-term complications, which occur in an emergency and in unusual cases for diabetics, such as not eating for a long time, or to do a heavy muscle effort, or non-adherence to treatment. These conditions often lead to hypoglycemia. The symptoms of hypoglycemia appear in the form of sweating, lack of cohesion of the nerves and tremors of the limbs, and a feeling of hunger may be accompanied by vertigo and nausea. And in case the situation worsens and the patient does not eat sweets or food urgently, the sugar continues to decline and increase these symptoms in clarity and exacerbation, where the patient loses the ability to express and a stumble in the perception, with severe paleness of the face and fainting in some cases, This condition may lead to the death of the patient if not promptly treated.
And the other case against the previous case is increased blood sugar, and often occur for people who are new to the disease, or who do not know that they have diabetes, and that occurs when the patient suffered severe or sudden nervous or psychological pressure, or to eat a large amount of Alcohol, and the symptoms are limited to the acute feeling of thirst with weakness and imbalance, and the urge to urinate, and may extend to a state of convulsions and develop into a coma, known as the coma of diabetes.
As for long-term complications, they occur for a small proportion of patients in the case of non-adherence to the treatment or harmful health habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol and irregularity in meals and physical effort. Long-term complications extend to the nerves, kidneys, eyesight, heart and arteries, as well as the most common cases of limb loss, especially the foot.