Diabetic Complications

Diabetes is a problem that thousands of people around the world are dealing with. Diabetic complications, however, can often times be just as dangerous, if not more so, than diabetes. What are diabetic complications? These are the diseases that diabetics are at higher risk of developing once they are diagnosed with diabetes.

If you have diabetes, you are more likely to develop one of these complications. Like diabetes, most of these complications are treatable. Unfortunately, treating the complication just becomes another prescription, another stress, another concern, and another health issue.

Many of the people that suffer from these complications are not diabetic. These are all diseases that affect millions of people and you don’t have to have diabetes to be a victim. Having diabetes, however, makes you more susceptible to contracting these diseases.

What are these diseases, how are they related to diabetes, and how can they be naturally treated. Great question! Below is a quick summary of the diseases. Click on the links within each paragraph to learn more.

•Heart Disease: The first and most serious of the diabetic complications is heart disease. Everybody has heard of heart disease, but what is it really? It has to do with the heart and how it pumps blood to the rest of your body. People with diabetes are twice as likely to be at risk for heart disease. Additionally, a large portion of diabetic deaths can be attributes to heart disease.

One of the leading complications of heart disease is a heart attack. To get more information about preventing a heart attack, click here.

•Cholesterol: Another common complication is bad cholesterol. Having diabetes actually lowers the good cholesterol and raises the bad cholesterol in your body. This is exactly the opposite of what you want, so having diabetes make you a high risk candidate for bad cholesterol. Having a bad cholesterol ratio puts you at an elevated risk for heart disease.

•Hypertension: Hypertension or high blood pressure is yet another common complication of diabetes. As a diabetic, you are far more likely to have issues with hypertension than a non diabetic. Hypertension, like many of these complications, makes you a high risk candidate for other health related issues such as stoke and heart attacks. Fortunately, hypertension is easy to monitor and there are several natural options to help keep this problem under control.

•Impotence: For men, a very common complication to diabetes is impotence. This is a problem that will eventually effect up to 80% of the men that have diabetes. Although this is not a life threatening disease, it can lead to frustration, stress, and depression. These symptoms are precursors to other more serious health problems such as hypertension and heart disease.

•Neuropathy: One of the more painful diabetic complications is neuropathy. Neuropathy is damage that occurs to the nerves within different parts of the body. This damage manifests itself in the form of numbness, weakened muscles, and pain. This most often affects your arms, legs, hands, and feet, but can also affect your stomach, urinary system, and reproductive organs. Neuropathy is caused by long term exposure to elevated glucose levels in your blood and can often lead to amputation of your effected limbs.

•Retinopathy: One of the other serious complications of diabetes is diabetic retinopathy . People who are suffering from diabetes are at a very high risk for eye problems, especially as the condition worsens. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common eye disease caused by diabetic complications. It was even found to be the number one cause of blindness in American adults.

As you can see from the list above, there are several diabetic complications that can cause significant health related problems. Once you are diagnosed with diabetes, you should take every precaution to not only stay on top of our diabetes, but to also be aware of these related problems, their symptoms, and what to do should you believe that you are experiencing related problems.

In the end, it would be better to work to ensure that you avoid diabetes so that your risk of becoming afflicted with one of these complications is not as great. I know that I am stating the obvious, but how many smokers seem shocked when they are diagnosed with lung disease or cancer? My point to this is that the signs of diabetes are very clear and should not be ignored. Don’t stick your head in the sand and hope for the best. Take action to avert this problem.

Once you become a high risk candidate for diabetes (over weight, no exercise, poor food choices, no supplements…) you need to change your habits. Doing so will help to not only reduce your risk of diabetes, but also the complications that go along with this disease.

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