What are the dangers of high blood sugar?

If you have hyperglycemia, it is not enough to rely on treatment, but also to develop good diet and lifestyle habits. Today, our experts will introduce to you the main hazards of hyperglycemia diseases, and hope that after you clearly understand the dangers of this disease, you can better prevent this disease.

Mutilating your organism. In the early stage of diabetes, patients may not have any symptoms except for high blood sugar, but if they are indifferent and relax the treatment, persistent high blood sugar may unknowingly erode the large and small blood vessels and nerves of your body, causing lesions of various tissues and organs in the body, leading to various acute and chronic complications, and in severe cases, it can be disabling and fatal.

Acute complications: diabetic ketoacidosis and non-ketotic hyperosmolar coma are the most common, with the former being more common in type 1 diabetes and type 2 diabetes in stressful states (eg, acute infection, acute stroke, mental stimulation, trauma, surgery, overeating), and the latter in older patients. Acute complications tend to be menacing, and if not treated promptly, the case fatality rate is high. With the improvement of modern medical standards, especially the widespread use of insulin, the incidence and mortality rate of acute complications have decreased significantly compared with the past.

Chronic complications: Compared with acute complications, the incidence of chronic complications is increasing, and it has become the leading cause of disability and mortality in diabetic patients.

Heart disease. Diabetes can cause coronary arteriosclerosis, narrowing, and blockage, leading to coronary heart disease (angina, myocardial infarction), diabetic cardiomyopathy, and even sudden death. Although the disease caused by diabetes is more severe, the symptoms are often atypical, and painless myocardial infarction is more common. The most common symptoms of diabetic cardiomyopathy are cardiomegaly and arrhythmias, followed by heart failure. The risk of myocardial infarction is 34 times higher in people with diabetes than in people without diabetes.

Cerebrovascular lesions. Cerebral thrombosis is the mainstay, while intracerebral hemorrhage is relatively rare.In mild cases, half of the body is numb or inactive, and in severe cases, paralysis, confusion, deep coma, and life-threatening. People with diabetes have a 24-fold higher risk of stroke than people without diabetes.

Kidney damage. It is one of the most common microvascular complications of diabetes. In the early stage, the patient's symptoms are often not obvious, the increase in urine microalbumin excretion rate is its only manifestation, which is easy to be ignored, and later with the decrease of glomerular filtration rate, the metabolic waste in the body can not be discharged, the serum creatinine and urea nitrogen begin to rise, and clinical symptoms appear, and the further development of the disease can lead to uremia. Data show that the occurrence rate of microalbuminuria can reach 10%, 30% and 40% after 10 years and 20 years, respectively, and 5% and 10% of patients progress to uremia after 20 years, the risk of uremia in diabetic patients is 17 times that of non-diabetic patients, and half of the patients with end-stage renal disease receiving dialysis are diabetic patients.

Retinopathy and cataracts. Retinopathy is the most common, with no symptoms in the early stages, and as the disease progresses, it can lead to recurrent fundus bleeding, significant vision loss, and in severe cases, blindness. The risk of blindness from diabetes is 25 times higher than that of non-diabetic patients.According to Chinese data, 50% of diabetic patients with a course of 10 years will develop retinopathy, 80% of patients with a course of more than 15 years will develop retinopathy, and 2% of patients will be completely blind.

I hope that after everyone clearly understands the harm of hyperglycemia disease, they can pay more attention to this disease, and then prevent the appearance of this disease from diet and life. If a patient with high blood sugar finds that this disease seriously endangers his health, he must go to a regular hospital for treatment in time.