The causes of wasting in diabetic patients may be insulin deficiency, high blood glucose, improper dietary control, pharmacogenetic wasting, or the combination of other consumptive diseases.
1. Lack of insulin: Insulin can not only play the role of lowering blood sugar, but also an important synthetic hormone in the body. Insufficient insulin in diabetic patients can easily affect the synthesis of sugar, protein and fat, thus causing wasting.
2. High blood glucose: diabetic patients with significantly higher blood glucose, urination is easy to excrete a large amount of glucose, so that the body’s own carbohydrate content decreased, in order to maintain the body’s energy supply, had to break down fat for energy, thus causing wasting.
3. Improper dietary control: in order to control their own blood glucose, diabetic patients need to carry out dietary regulation, if the recipe adjustment is too strict, it may cause nutritional intake is insufficient, thus causing wasting.
4. Pharmacogenetic wasting: most of the diabetic patients need to control their blood glucose through medication, but some biguanide glucose-control drugs may cause weight loss and other adverse reactions.
5. Combination of other consumptive diseases: If you have diabetes mellitus at the same time, there are malignant tumors, hyperthyroidism and other consumptive diseases, may also cause wasting.
If diabetic patients experience wasting, they can go to the hospital for examination, make a clear diagnosis, and carry out targeted treatment as soon as possible to prevent wasting from worsening and causing other physical problems.