Just a quick overview what diabetes is doing to your body before we go into “complications mode” and how to deal with it.

 

In most cases diabetes is considered a chronic and incurable disease. It is caused by the fact that your body is not producing any or not enough insulin. Which results in an over supply of glucose in your blood. The hormone called insulin supports the cells in your body to harvest the glucose supplied by food intake, the body to function well.

 

If the condition is not treated properly and consistently, and there are a number of schools of thoughts on what is right and what is wrong, the body starts malfunctioning. We all have to be aware that over time, with no intervention at all, this disease can have truly debilitating and life threatening effects.

 

Diabetes Complications

 

Here’s a list of some of the more serious complications that can occur when diagnosed with diabetes if it’s not treated properly.

·        diabetic retinopathy

·        erectile dysfunction

·        hypoglycemia

·        kidney disease

·        kidney failure

·        stomach nerve damage

·        sexual and urologic problems

 

Lets explore just a couple of the most common ones.

 

Erectile dysfunction seems to be one of the widest spread complications which occur when diagnosed with diabetes. This condition is referred to if there is a repeated inability for a man to keep his erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. This condition can turn into a total inability or inconsistent ability to get erection. Diabetes experts seem to believe that there could be psychological factors attached to the cause of erectile dysfunction, they list factors like stress, anxiety, guilt, low self-esteem and the fear of sexual failure.

 

The most common and best known complication when suffering of diabetes is kidney disease. Statistically it accounts for almost 45 percent of new diabetes related cases. The real trouble is that even if your blood glucose is tightly controlled you not protected from neither nephropathy and kidney failure.

 

When your kidneys stop functioning properly you need treatment to get your body prepared for kidney replacement. There are a couple of doing this.

 

One is hemodialysis, which is a machine through which you filter and clean the patients blood, outside of the patients body, to rid the blood of waste such as potassium and urea.

 

The second treatment is a kidney transplant. Which effectively means that a new kidney from an organ donor is implanted into the patients body.

 

The first kidney transplantation had been performed in Chicago in the early 1950 and it was successful. As we all know traditional medicine has come a long way in the last 58 years. And as a general rule, even though a kidney transplant still is a complex surgical task, it tends to be very successful.

As mentioned above, there are other health complications related to diabetes, however I’ve covered the major ones by expanding on Erectile dysfunction and kidney failure.  

 

The best protection from all the listed complications still is a healthy lifestyle, eating a nutritious diet and plenty of physical exercise.

 

 

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