A) Long-term complications of diabetes develop gradually. The longer you have diabetes — and the less controlled your blood sugar — the higher the risk of complications. Eventually, diabetes complications may be disabling or even life-threatening. In fact, prediabetes can lead to type 2 diabetes. PoRead more
A) Long-term complications of diabetes develop gradually. The longer you have diabetes — and the less controlled your blood sugar — the higher the risk of complications. Eventually, diabetes complications may be disabling or even life-threatening. In fact, prediabetes can lead to type 2 diabetes. Possible complications include:
1. Heart and blood vessel (cardiovascular) disease. Diabetes majorly increases the risk of many heart problems. These can include coronary artery disease with chest pain (angina), heart attack, stroke and narrowing of arteries (atherosclerosis). If you have diabetes, you’re more likely to have heart disease or stroke.
2. Nerve damage (neuropathy). Too much sugar can injure the walls of the tiny blood vessels (capillaries) that nourish the nerves, especially in the legs. This can cause tingling, numbness, burning or pain that usually begins at the tips of the toes or fingers and gradually spreads upward.
3. Damage to the nerves related to digestion can cause problems with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or constipation. For men, it may lead to erectile dysfunction.
4. Kidney damage (nephropathy). The kidneys hold millions of tiny blood vessel clusters (glomeruli) that filter waste from the blood. Diabetes can damage this delicate filtering system.
Eye damage (retinopathy). Diabetes can damage the blood vessels of the eye (diabetic retinopathy). This could lead to blindness.
5. Foot damage. Nerve damage in the feet or poor blood flow to the feet increases the risk of many foot complications.
6. Skin and mouth conditions. Diabetes may leave you more prone to skin problems, including bacterial and fungal infections.
7. Hearing impairment. Hearing problems are more common in people with diabetes.
Alzheimer’s disease. Type 2 diabetes may increase the risk of dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease.
8. Depression. Depression symptoms are common in people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
B) Complications of gestational diabetes:
Most women who have gestational diabetes deliver healthy babies. However, untreated or uncontrolled blood sugar levels can cause problems for you and your baby.
C) Complications in your baby can be caused by gestational diabetes, including:
1. Excess growth. Extra glucose can cross the placenta. Extra glucose triggers the baby’s pancreas to make extra insulin. This can cause your baby to grow too large. It can lead to a difficult birth and sometimes the need for a C-section.
2. Low blood sugar. Sometimes babies of mothers with gestational diabetes develop low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) shortly after birth. This is because their own insulin production is high.
3. Type 2 diabetes later in life. Babies of mothers who have gestational diabetes have a higher risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes later in life.
4. Death. Untreated gestational diabetes can lead to a baby’s death either before or shortly after birth.
D) Complications in the mother also can be caused by gestational diabetes, including:
1. Preeclampsia. Symptoms of this condition include high blood pressure, too much protein in the urine, and swelling in the legs and feet.
2. Gestational diabetes. If you had gestational diabetes in one pregnancy, you’re more likely to have it again with the next pregnancy.
Abroma Augusta is traditionally used in homoeopathy to manage Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Here are some of its roles and benefits: 1. Blood Sugar Control: Abroma Augusta helps in controlling blood sugar levels, making it beneficial for managing hyperglycemia. 2. Anti-inflammatory: It has anti-inflammaRead more
Abroma Augusta is traditionally used in homoeopathy to manage Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Here are some of its roles and benefits:
1. Blood Sugar Control: Abroma Augusta helps in controlling blood sugar levels, making it beneficial for managing hyperglycemia.
2. Anti-inflammatory: It has anti-inflammatory properties that can help reduce inflammation associated with diabetes.
3. Wound Healing: It promotes wound healing, which is crucial for diabetic patients who often suffer from slow-healing wounds.
4. Hypolipidemic: It helps in managing lipid levels, reducing the risk of cardiovascular complications in diabetic patients.
5. Antioxidant: Its antioxidant properties help combat oxidative stress, a common issue in diabetes.
6. Dryness of the mouth, almost constant, with desire for drinking large quantities of cold water; excessive thirst, drinking does not relieve it, tongue clean and very dry; whole of the buccal cavity is dry; speech very feeble and indistinct, frequent desire to drink liquids; insatiable thirst; lips dry and pale, rather bluish.
7. Unnatural appetite, insatiable hunger; can eat again a little after eating a good meal, desire for sweets; burning thirst; nothing seems to satisfy the hunger.
8. Hungry with faint feeling- desire for all kinds of food, sweets, acids, fish and meat, rice, bread; not satisfied with eating; not much dyspeptic symptoms, no cructation, no heat-burn, no acidity or fullness of the stomach, can eat at any hour; great relish for liquids, thirst for large quantity of water during fever, no dislike for solid food. Feeling of weakness when hungry; enjoys meal well. Frequent desire to eat; a feeling of emptiness of stomach, the food does seem to stay long in the stomach; nausea worse during menses.
9. Profus urination both day and night; passage of urine, very large quantity every time; passes urine every two hours, of profuse quantity; desire to drink after urination, the mouth is dry and desire for drink; drink relieves thirst, drinks large quantity; the colour of urine is clear; a peculiar fishy odour with slight sediment turbid at times, passes from half pint to two pints or more of clear urine at a time, polyuria, urine of high specific gravity containing sugar; glycosuria, diabetes mellitus; feels weak and exhausted almost each time he passes urine; passes some ten to fifteen pounds or more urine in 24 hours, passes urine frequently and large quantity of passes of urine frequently and large quantity of passage of urine relieves the bladder, increased flow of urine; urgent desire to pass urine; nocturnal enuresis; gets up at night to urinate several times; the quantity of urine more at night; frequency of urination more in the afternoon but the quantity passed is less; burning sensation at the mouth of the urethra.
10. Free flow of urine, rawness of the orifice of the urethra, soreness of the prepuce caused by the passage of excessive sugar in the urine; smarting and violent itching of the part; absence of sexual desire, inability to coition, extreme exhaustion after coition; weakness of sexual organs, swelling of testes, hanging of the testes.
11. Ulceration on hands and feet.
12. Great uneasiness; languidity; feeling of extreme exhaustion, inability to do any active work, disinclination to work; inability of temper; great loss of flesh; burning sensation all aver the body; frequent thirst for large quantities of water with dryness of the mouth; frequent profuse passage of urine, worse at night; sleeplessness or disturbed un-refreshing sleep. Menstruation painful and scanty or painful and profuse, pain on both side of the lower abdomen, hysteria in weak women with menstrual troubles; diabetes mellitus, weakness with loss of weight; pain in whole body worse by movement, better by lying down.
These properties make Abroma Augusta a valuable remedy in the holistic management of diabetes mellitus.
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