BODY SIGNAL ALERT GLUCOSE LEVEL, ELEVATED: DESCRIPTION AND POSSIBLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Though you’ve probably heard that the primary symptoms of diabetes ate an increase in thirst and urination and fatigue, sometimes a simple blood test that shows an elevation in glucose level is the first indication of this initially hidden disease.
A normal blood sugar level is 60 to 120. Often when the blood sugar level is only slightly elevated—above 120—there are few apparent side effects, if any. Even in extreme cases, when people are obese and sedentary, their complaints may consist of vague symptoms such as weakness and nausea. Sometimes people also develop double or blurred vision due to an abnormal sugar level; in more severe cases, weight loss, thirst, and increased urination can be the major symptoms. If you have these Body Signals, it is important that your doctor know if anyone in your family has ever had diabetes and especially if your mother had diabetes when she was pregnant. You should also tell your doctor about any recent weight gain or loss.
If an elevated blood sugar level goes undetected and untreated, fullblown diabetes can eventually develop. Besides the necessity of daily insulin medication, I’ve seen many other diabetic problems that can affect the quality of a person’s life. These can include numbness, which appears most often in the feet and hands, vaginal yeast infections, skin rashes that form in the folds of body fat and on the anus and penis, and even bladder infections. Usually, it’s these annoying symptoms that bring patients to the doctor, and they don’t have a clue that they have diabetes until a blood sugar test confirms it. I see this occur most often in people who are in their 40s. In fact, the typical case that I regularly see is a 50-year-old who gradually develops high blood sugar levels because of the lethal combination of obesity, a high-fat diet, and a sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes results because there is not enough insulin in the systems to treat the unusually high glucose levels in the body.
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