DIABETES: SYMPTOMS AND EFFECTS ESSAY

Introduction

Diabetes makes up one of the metabolic-related infections resulting from the inability of the body of an individual to produce the required amount of insulin hormone in the body making the glucose level in the blood to go high. The diabetes infection is considered to be lifelong as it can affect a person from the period he or she is young until the time he grows old (McKellar, Humphreys & Piette, 2003). During the oxidation of the food taken by the body to glucose or sugar, the body requires the insulin hormone which assists in transferring the energy from the oxidation to other body cells which ensure proper function of the entire nervous system. When the body is unable to produce the required amount of insulin by the body to transfer the energy from the oxidation process a lot of the glucose or sugar gets accumulated into the cells and most of the sugar remains in the blood. The excel accumulation of the glucose level in the blood usually leads to the diabetes infection due to excess accumulation of sugar in the blood (McKellar, Humphreys & Piette, 2003). 

There are two different kinds of diabetes which are likely to affect the individuals. The two types of diabetes include the juvenile diabetes which is mostly affec5s the young children due to the failure of their pancreases to produce the insulin hormones for the transportation of the oxidized glucose in the blood. The second kind of the diabetes is observed when the body or the pancreases produce insulin hormones which are not enough as per the body energy transport requirement. The second type is usually referring to as the adult onset diabetes (Ciechanowski, Katon, Russo & Hirsch, 2003).

Some of the major signs and symptoms of the both types of diabetes include:

Due to excess the amount of sugar in the blood the patients who have diabetes are frequently urinating due to lack of proper energy transfer to all cells in the body and the excel glucose in the blood.

Due to the excess glucose in the blood as a result of lack of energy to transfer the glucose to other body cells from the blood, the infected individuals are usually feeling thirsty, and fatigue to excess consumption of water in the body needed to dilute the excess sugar present in the blood. Also, the availability of the excess sugar in the blood makes the affected individuals prone to hamstring due to natural incomplete oxidation of the glucose in the tissues (Ciechanowski, Katon, Russo & Hirsch, 2003).

Even though the patients who have diabetes usually eat, they always feel hungry. Due to lack of proper transfer of the oxidized sugar or glucose to other body cells, the patients often feel they are hungry as most of the products of digestion remains in the blood and does not reach the blood cells and the tissues where they are required for proper body function.

The second type of the diabetes results to pain in the feet’s and the hands of the infected patients due to the regular accumulation of the incomplete oxidized food into the muscles resulting in pain.

Another symptom associated with diabetes is the wrong vision in the infected patients who are suffering from the diabetes infection resulting due to the destruction of the blood vessels in the eyes as well as the blood vessels in the kidneys cells (Ciechanowski, Katon, Russo & Hirsch, 2003).

Due to the fatigue caused by the lack of proper transfer of the glucose or the sugar to the cells where they are needed for proper function, the individuals usually feels tired and the presences of the glucose in the blood results regular weight loss in the patients. It is examining consecutive weight loss in the patients who are suffering from the infection.

Effects of diabetes in the patients

Diabetes has both short term and long term implications for the patients with the disease. The long term effects or damages cause on the long term basis are usually referred to as the diabetic complication (Ciechanowski, Katon & Russo, 2000). Due to the ability of diabetes to affect all nerves and blood vessels, the infection can affect any part of the body.

One of the major effects of diabetes is found in the circulatory systems of the human body where the infection results in a lot of fatty acid deposits in the blood vessels. Due to the improper blood circulation caused by the deposits of fatty acids in the blood vessels, the diabetes patients have usually associated pain in the joints as well as tiredness accompanied by muscle pool in the joints (Ciechanowski, Katon, Russo & Hirsch, 2003).

In the integumentary system, the diabetes infection is likely to affect the patient's skin negatively. Due to lack of moisture on the surface as a result of the excess sugar in the blood, the individuals suffering from diabetes their skins are likely to dry up and crack as moisture is considered as one of the most essentials which conserves the skins nature from drying up (Ciechanowski, Katon & Russo, 2000).

The effects of diabetes on the nervous system is that the infection can negatively influence a person perception toward the head, cold as well as pain. Due to diabetes disease, an individual is likely to suffer a lot as diabetes makes some of the senses ineffective. Lack of proper reasons to heat and cold impose most of the infected diabetes patients to injury (Ciechanowski, Katon & Russo, 2000).

Conclusion

Diabetes infection has adverse effects on all the parts of the nervous system. For instance, diabetes patients are prone to complication in their reproductive system, the diabetes complication negatively affects the circulatory system and also the integumentary system as well as the circulatory system.

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