Are there any symptoms that put us on alert to a possible case of diabetes?
Type 1 does have symptoms.It affects the most young population.The pancreas does not produce insulin and requires an injection.It is not hereditary and affects 10% of the more than 30,000 diabetics in Cartagena, apart from 13,000 who do not know.It is usually detected by several symptoms: excessive thirst, urinating a lot, hunger even if they lose weight much that they eat and generalized tiredness.With glucose control the doctor detects it right away.
The treatment is personalized depends on the activity that the child or the adult does and what it eats.Type 2 diabetes is more frequent.It is characterized by insufficient insulin production and inadequate use of it.First pills are used and then injections.The problem is that it is asymptomatic.People think that type 1 is more dangerous, but type 2 diabetes can have years of evolution until it flows into a heart attack or stroke.
How should type 2 be acted before diabetes if you do not have any symptoms?
Going to the doctor once a year and analytical both the elderly and children and young people.The sooner it is better detected because if it cannot affect the sight, kidneys, heart, brain or feet, among other organs.
Diabetes, do you debut at an early age or do they suffer indistinctly minor, youth and adults?
From that you are born until you die they can diagnose a diabetes.There are children who are detected with months and people who are diagnosed with 80 years.The life we lead makes more and more diabetes, every time we eat worse and lead a sedentary life.
You have to remedy with a healthy eating and exercise, at least three times a week.The greatest enemy of diabetes is the couch, you have to move, it is essential.It is a three -legged bank: food, treatment and sport.Children have to have adequate diabetological education, just as mathematics and language study.And the elders too.
Why, despite preventive campaigns, there are still so many people who have diabetes and don't even know?
People are afraid to know the diagnosis, but the greatest fear is not to be diagnosed because the damage is irreversible.
