认识糖尿病（Understanding diabetes）.doc

认识糖尿病（Understanding diabetes） Diabetes overview Diabetes is a combination of disorders of glucose, protein, and fat metabolism caused by insulin deficiency in the body or by insulin that fails to function normally in target cells. The basic feature of diabetes is chronic hyperglycemia. With the duration of diabetes, sugar, protein and fat metabolism disorders can cause eye, kidney, nerve, blood vessels and heart tissues in chronic lesions; if not timely and proper treatment will be blind, gangrene, uremia, cerebral vascular disease or heart disease, so that life threatening. Diabetes is a common disease, can occur at any age, there are more than 100 million diabetes patients around the world, the total number of diabetic patients in China at least 10 million, accounting for about 1% of the total population. Signs and symptoms of diabetes mellitus Diabetes is characterized by a variety of symptoms at onset. It can have typical symptoms, or symptoms, or symptoms due to diabetic complications, or diabetes mellitus due to the diagnosis and treatment of other diseases. 1, the typical symptoms are fatigue, lassitude, polyuria, thirst, increased water intake, easy to hunger, appetite increase, but the weight loss. In a nutshell of polyuria, polydipsia, and weight loss, which is more than a few. The blood sugar level is higher than the kidney sugar threshold, the urine row sugar, the urine osmotic pressure enhances, the urine quantity increases. The urine increased, a corresponding increase in the amount of urine. Daily urine volume of up to 5 kg. Because of the loss of moisture, the patient feels thirsty and increases the amount of water available. Drinking water is added to supplement lost water, not because the amount of water increases to increase urine output. The food is digested into glucose into the bloodstream, but the tissue cells cannot be used and stored, and most of the glucose is excreted from the urine. The patient feels hungry, increased appetite, weight is