The Symptoms Of Diabetes

Symptoms of diabetes

Four symptoms that are most common in diabetes are:

Increased thirst
Frequent urination
Be hungry
Loss of weight for no apparent reason.

Below explains the reason for these symptoms

Each of the cells of the body need energy to survive. People get the energy making the foods you eat fats and sugars (glucose). This glucose travels through the bloodstream as a normal component of blood. The blood cells then take a small amount of blood glucose to use as energy. The substance that allows the cell to take the blood glucose is a protein called insulin.

Insulin is produced by the beta cells in the pancreas. The pancreas is an organ that is located near the stomach.

When blood glucose increases, cells beta release insulin into the blood stream and distributed it to all the cells of the body.

Insulin adheres to proteins on the surface of the cell and allows sugar to pass from the blood into the cell, where it is converted into energy.

A person with type 2 diabetes or gestational diabetes cannot produce enough insulin or it produces is not "sensible", which means that the body cannot use it properly. A person with type 2 diabetes, produces nothing or too little insulin.

Without the necessary insulin, the cells of the body cannot use glucose that is in the blood and begin to get hungry while glucose accumulates in the blood stream.

In response to this lack of energy in the cells, the brain sends signals that tell the body to eat more. Meanwhile, other cells in the body are trying to obtain energy by breaking the fat cells and muscle. The liver can convert muscle protein into glucose. Then starts a vicious cycle: more glucose is created but not can transform into energy because there is not enough insulin to take glucose from the bloodstream to the cells of the body.

When there is much glucose in the blood, the body is dispose of it through the urine. The urine of healthy individuals, does not contain sugar. In people with diabetes the excess glucose absorbs water as a sponge would. The people produce excessive amounts of urine because of all this water. All this urine makes feel thirsty, so drink water excessively.

All of this is due to a lack of insulin that causes people with diabetes to develop classic symptoms of diabetes: lose weight but have much appetite, take excess water and go to the bathroom to urinate constantly.