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Diabetes and Your Body
Once of the best ways to begin to better manage your diabetes is to
understand how diabetes affects your body. If you have diabetes sugar levels
in your blood it mean you have higher than normal range blood sugar.
Higher sugar levels in blood can cause many problems in your body.
That's why you want to learn all you can about how to control your diabetes
and how to bring your blood sugar into a normal range blood sugar.
Your Body and Diabetes
Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas. Your body
changes the food you eat into a form of sugar called glucose. Insulin is
necessary to allow this glucose, or sugar, to go into all the body’s cells
to be used as energy. With diabetes, the sugar does not enter the cells in
the body as it should. Instead, it remains in the blood. This can be
form insulin resistance, or lack of insulin production or a combination of
both. Unless medications or insulin is taken to help the body with
metabolism your blood glucose remains high.
Some, but not all, of this extra sugar in your blood is carried out
of your body through your urine.
Only about half the people with diabetes have been
diagnosed. In the early stages of diabetes, there are few symptoms, or the
symptoms may seem like symptoms of other health problems. Because of this
masking of symptoms, damage to your eyes, kidneys, nerves, gums, and other
areas may have occurred even before you were diagnosed. For this reason it
is important for you to get control of your diabetes as quickly as possible
to prevent any further damage to your body.
Allowing glucose levels in blood to continue to stay high
has an effect on every portion of your body. Over time this high blood
sugar can cause complications of diabetes. These complications are
difficult to control and in some cases can eventually cause death.
Complications such as kidney disease, heart disease, blindness, amputations
and neurological damage are caused by continuously high blood glucose.
By regularly testing blood glucose levels on a daily
basis, you can see exactly what your blood sugar levels are and can learn to
take steps to get your blood sugar levels under control. If you are not
checking your blood sugar on a daily basis, you have nothing to gauge your
control of diabetes against. You may be out of control and have no
clue about it until your doctor does an a1c test which reveals a higher than
normal a1c levels. A normal a1c is 6 or below. With diabetes if
you can keep your a1c below 7.0 you are within satisfactory limits.
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