As we all know, diabetes is a chronic disease that seriously endangers human health, and the key to preventing and treating diabetes is the word “early”, i.e. early diagnosis and early treatment. The typical clinical manifestations of diabetes are three more and one less, i.e. drinking more, eating more, urinating more and losing weight. Many patients have atypical symptoms and seem to have nothing to do with diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes, which has an insidious onset and usually has no significant symptoms and is only discovered during physical examination or other medical visits.
Therefore, it is very important to identify the early atypical symptoms or suspicious manifestations of diabetes in order to detect diabetes at an early stage.
The human body as an organic whole will always reveal some special signs when there is a problem in a certain part of the body. The following are atypical symptoms or suspicious manifestations of diabetes.
15 early signs of diabetes
1, eye vision changes: vision loss or black shadows in front of the eyes, do not take for granted that it is “old eyes” “old cataract”, this is also likely to be caused by high blood sugar caused by retinopathy or cataract, must go to the hospital to check to exclude Diabetic eye disease.
2. Oral symptoms: Patients have dry mouth and thirst, oral mucous membrane bruises, redness and swelling, burning and scintillation in the mouth, gum atrophy or swelling, periodontal infection, alveolar bone resorption, loose teeth or even loss, etc. These are all related to hyperglycemia causing vascular and neuropathy, calcium loss, immune system decline and secondary infection. Therefore, patients must be alert when the above symptoms appear and check blood sugar early.
3. Skin manifestations: Hyperglycemia can stimulate skin nerve endings and cause skin itching, especially vulvar itching in women; at the same time, due to decreased local resistance, the skin is prone to infections and boils all over the skin and skin fungal infections (such as ringworm, ringworm, ringworm, nail fungus, etc.), folliculitis, boils and carbuncles, blistering disease and other skin lesions that are very stubborn and incurable. So beware that this may be caused by diabetes.
4. Abnormal sensation at the end of the limb: Patients have symmetrical abnormal sensation at the end of the limb, manifested as numbness, ankylosis, pins and needles, burning sensation, pain, etc. at the distal end of the limb, with symptoms progressing gradually from mild to severe. It often suggests the possibility of diabetes mellitus.
5. Pre-meal hypoglycemia: In the early stage of diabetes, some patients do not have the typical symptoms of “three more and one less”, but often show unbearable hunger and hypoglycemia before meals. The reason for this is that insulin secretion in type 2 diabetes is delayed and not synchronized with the changes in blood sugar, and when blood sugar peaks after meals, insulin secretion does not reach the peak, and when blood sugar falls back before the next meal, insulin secretion reaches the peak instead, which causes hypoglycemia (reactive hypoglycemia) and triggers hunger before meals.
6, the wound does not heal for a long time: As diabetic patients often have peripheral vascular disease, affecting the blood supply of the tissue around the wound, coupled with, diabetic patients with serious loss of nutrition, resistance to decline, which leads to wound healing difficulties.
7, unexplained weight loss: diabetic patients due to insufficient insulin secretion or insulin resistance leads to sugar utilization disorders, so that the energy required by the body can only be provided by the breakdown of body fat and protein, which leads to weight loss of patients. Therefore, those who suddenly lose weight and cannot find the reason should consider the possibility of diabetes.
8, repeated urinary tract, bile duct, lung infections: some patients with recurrent urinary tract, bile duct, lung infections may be related to diabetes, especially women, because the female urethra is shorter, itself is more prone to urinary tract infections than men, if there is diabetes, poor resistance, urine sugar content is higher, the urethra has become the best breeding ground for various germs (bacteria, mold, etc.), there may be frequent urination, urinary urgency, painful urination If combined with “neurogenic bladder”, resulting in urinary retention, the chance of urinary tract infection will be further increased.
9, sexual dysfunction: high blood sugar can lead to neurological and vascular lesions, thus causing male sexual dysfunction, which can lead to symptoms of decreased libido and erectile insecurity. Therefore, middle-aged men with normal sexual function in the past, when impotence or erectile insecurity occurs, they should have their blood sugar tested in time to exclude diabetes. According to the survey, about 50% of men with diabetes combined with impotence.
10. Changes in bones: When patients feel back pain and have obvious hunchback, it is likely to be due to osteoporosis. And some of the osteoporosis is closely related to diabetes. The blood glucose concentration is high, and the kidneys excrete too much glucose while the calcium in the blood is also lost in large quantities with urine; in addition, due to the lack of insulin, collagen synthesis is insufficient and the bone matrix is reduced, so it is easy to cause osteoporosis.
11, children nocturnal enuresis: children suddenly urinate more frequently over a period of time, and children who do not wet the bed all year round appear to wet the bed, at this time parents should not just blame the child, should promptly take the child to a diabetes examination.
12, tuberculosis does not heal for a long time: after suffering from tuberculosis, after regular chemotherapy but the effect has not been good, repeated and difficult to heal, to consider whether the combination of diabetes. Because of high blood sugar, the body’s resistance, immune function, often insensitive to anti-tuberculosis drugs.
13.Pregnancy-related manifestations: women who have a history of delivering huge fetuses or a history of multiple miscarriages, stillbirths, premature births and excessive amniotic fluid should consider whether they have diabetes mellitus.
14.Significantly obese and young patients with atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease and fundus changes: Be alert to diabetes mellitus.
15, family history: the genetic factor in the cause of diabetes has been affirmed, it is reported that 25%-50% of diabetic patients have a positive family history, and the prevalence of diabetes in the offspring of a husband and wife suffering from diabetes at the same time is 5%-22% and the influence of the mother is more obvious, so there are family messengers to pay extra attention to check blood sugar.
Be alert!
Anyone who has one of the above symptoms, even if they do not have the typical “three more or less” symptoms, should go to the hospital as soon as possible to have their blood sugar and urine glucose tested so that diabetes will not be missed.