Diabetes is a disease full of complication, and the reason is well know. The complication of diabetes are more agonizing and torturing than the disease itself. Acute diabetes complications can arise at any time during the course of the disease, whereas the more dreaded chronic complications slowly unfold themselves years after the onset of disease. The following are list of complications of diabetes:
Diabetic coma( unconsciousness ): This is a severe life threatening complication, commonly found in juvenile (child or young) diabetics, but may affect adult as well. This takes place when a diabetic person urinate frequently and did not drink another liquids to replace the water passed out through urine. The blood becomes acidified and thus affects the brain to give rise, first to drowsiness and lethargy and then gradually diabetic coma.
Boils and carbuncles: persistent boils and carbuncles ( a carbuncles has a number of openings, and it reaches deeper than a boil into the in underlying tissue). This may, in fact be the first indication of diabetes in some people. The factors responsible for this condition are: (a) high Glucose-level in the blood vessels of the skin and (b) Poor resistance power against whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed of dead white blood cells called PUS.
Acute Gangrene: Gangrene is defined as the death of a mass of tissue or an organ. Gangrene of a toe or foot is 50 to 60 times more common in diabetics than in healthy persons. Without adequate care, even an ordinary injury or small cut on the toe or foot may degenerate into Gangrene. However, wearing of covered shoe can wound the feet and lead to fatal consequence. Many diabetics visits the doctor with this development as their first compliant. Unfortunately, the complication often necessitate amputation of the leg affected.
Complication of the Excretory system: Five years or more after the onset of diabetes, kidneys starts to get damaged. The filtering units of kidneys become hardened. Besides, the blood vessels of kidneys also become hard and narrow. This leads initially to loss of proteins in the urine and then gradually to a rise in blood pressure, a swelling all over the body and may lead to kidney failure .
Defective Nervous System: Almost 90 percent of diabetics suffer from one or the other complication of the nervous system. However, only 25 to 50 percent of them have to face serious complication. Apart from derangement of the touch sensation in hands and feet, the urinary bladder got weakened. This either leads to incomplete emptying of the bladder or incontinence( The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces). So when the bladder cannot be emptied completely, the retained or residual urine harbor diseases.
Cardiovascular system: Diabetes speed up the process of atherosclerosis, I.e the degeneration of blood vessels. In diabetics, the inner part of the blood vessels get deposited not only with cholesterol but also with calcium. As a result, flexible and elastic blood vessels are transformed into hard and narrow pipes. Due to narrowing of blood vessels, various organ of the body and the limbs do not get adequate nourishment that is why a diabetic patient experiences bodily pain. There can be stroke and there can be high blood pressure.
Female Reproductive System: A diabetic woman has to face many problems during pregnancy. Diabetic women develop very large babies in their wombs. This causes great difficulty during the delivery and both the mother and the body have to face risks of an injury during delivery. Also diabetic women more often have stillbirths or deliver babies with congenital defects.
Complications of the Respiratory & Digestive system: A diabetic person easily contact Infection of the respiratory tract. About 15 percent of the patients suffering from tuberculosis are found to have to have diabetes too. Tuberculosis and diabetes undesirably affects each other to give rise to a vicious circle of complications. Also a diabetic person have to face many disorders of the digestive systems. They often suffer from nausea and vomiting.
Complication of the eye: One of the most feared complications and one of the most difficult to treat is diabetes retinopathy, which can lead to incurable blindness. After cataract and deficiency of vitamin A, diabetes retinopathy is the third chief cause of blindness.
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