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Diabetes Complications

Hi, I hope you are here because you want to learn about diabetes complications to help prevent them.

The complications of diabetes range from acute to chronic to severe. The acute complications can be included in the initial symptoms you have when first diagnosed. The acute problems include, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, ketoacidosis, polydipsia and polyphagia. When these are not controlled they can lead to chronic and severe complications of diabetes.

These include;

  • Vascular disease

  • Retinopathy (eyes)

  • Neuropathy (nerves)

  • Nephropathy (kidney)

  • Cardiomyopathy (heart)

  • Gastro paresis (stomach)

  • Bladder problems

  • Erectile Dysfunction (impotence)

  • Diabetic Foot Ulcers

  • Encephalopathy (dementia)

  • Nonketotic hypersomalar coma

  • Diabetic frozen shoulder

  • And possibly amputation and surgeries

    Diabetes is a chronic disease, which when not controlled can and more than likely cause these problems.

    The main reason diabetes causes so many of these problems is because of high glucose levels in your blood. Usually 240 mg/dl or higher, although levels above 140 mg/dl over extended periods of time will also can these damages. It will just happen more slowly.

    To avoid these complications learn how to control your sugar levels. More pages to help you do this will be added as time allows.

    As the pages are added, each one of the complications by the bullets above will become an active link that you can explore. This page is not meant in itself to explain the complications of diabetes, it is meant as a lead in to each separate complication.

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