What part of your body does diabetes affect?!
Question: Diabetes can affect your eyes, your internal organs. It also can affect your blood flow to these organs from the blood vessels. Especially your kidneys.
Going to the American Diabetes Foundation website will also give you a lot of information.
Good luck.
Answers: Diabetes can affect your eyes, your internal organs. It also can affect your blood flow to these organs from the blood vessels. Especially your kidneys.
Going to the American Diabetes Foundation website will also give you a lot of information.
Good luck.
the blood!
Diabetes effects all parts of the body! Kidney damage, vascular and ocular damage, hypertension, heart, brain, you name it, its in there.
Feet, eyes, and brain
well its ur blood.. but it can affect any part?!?! if you think you have it here are some symptoms
- bad attitude; not yourself
-DRINKING LOADS OF WATER
-losing weight
those are just a few. .i would see ur doc. if you think you have it
your whole body, but it is your pancreas that it all starts in as thats the glad that your body creates insulin.
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it affects your life!!
It affects your whole body as the diabetes travels all over your body through your circulatory system. The body parts most affected are the limbs like the legs and hands. If you get an injury in your legs and you don't get it checked out you could loose your leg cause of amputation. Diabetes is a serious disease that we need to be thoroughly informed about specially if you have a family history of diabetes.
It depends on the type of diabetes.
Type 1, your body attacks your pancreas and makes it unable to produce insulin. This affects your muscles, making them unable to absorb sugar from the blood, which makes sugar accumulate in the blood. This, in turn, can cause circulation problems--gangrene in the extremities, blindness, kidney failure, and other nasty things.
With Type 2, your pancreas is fine, you have plenty of insulin but your muscle tissues are unable to absorb it. So sugar builds up in the blood, causing many of the same results.
When sugar accumulates in the blood, glucose molecules bond with hemoglobin to make 'glycalated hemoglobin' which is a bigger molecule. This stuff can't get through the tiniest capillaries and tends to plug them up. This is called 'micro-vascular damage'. As it happens, the smallest capillaries are in the kidneys and also the retinas of the eyes, so diabetes is the biggest cause of kidney failure and blindness. It also impedes blood flow, a problem that is the worst the further you go from the heart, so cuts on the feet heal very slowly and can become ulcerated and gangrenous, and diabetes is also the biggest cause of amputation.
It affects every single part, because the excess sugar in the blood is carried thoroughout your entire body, causing damage and acting like a toxin.
It even affects your memory and ability to think and reason clearly (high and low blood sugar both screw up your ability to think).
If you are a man, it can cause impotence - which can become permanent.
It increases your risk of heart attack and stroke, and the damage is more severe if your blood sugar is not under control.
It causes retinopathy and eventually can lead to blindness. It can affect your hearing too.
It contributes to diseases like Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, and nerve damage can eventually lead to gangrene and loss of the extremities. Again, this is with uncontrolled blood sugar.
I can't think of a single area that it doesn't affect. It can even mess up your digestion pretty badly.
This is why it is VITAL to get your blood sugar down to near normal levels and keep it there! It reduces complications and helps you live a healthier, hopefully longer life.
pancreas, this organ is unable to produce the hormone insulin or regulate the bodies blood sugar levels.which leads people to be diabetic either level 1 or 2, both require treatment,
Diabetes primarily involves the pancreas. If it's type I DM, the immune system attacks the pancreatic cells that produce insulin, in type II, these cells eventually become overworked and fail due to damage caused by an unhealthy and excessive diet. The excessive sugar load also impairs the ability of cells to respond to insulin which makes it even harder for the body to control blood glucose levels. Without insulin, the body is unable to control and properly metabolize or store the sugars taken in by eating. High blood sugars lower the pH of the blood & make it acidic. This damages the blood vessels, the kidneys, & greatly increases the work demand on the heart. If left uncontrolled over a long period of time, this can cause severe enough damage to blood vessels that the tissues do not receive enough oxygen, leading to tissue death/gangrene. The damage to the kidneys & heart results in high and uncontrolled blood pressure which can lead to stroke, heart attacks, blood clots, blindness, & painful nerve damage. Eventually diabetics will often lose their limbs & eyesight and, therefore, their independence and ability to care for themselves and others. Extremely high blood sugars are not only dangerous in the long term. If blood glucose is allowed to get high enough, it can result in ketoacidosis & lead to severe dehydration, coma, seizures, kidney failure, & other consequences of metabolic acidosis.
it can affect all parts.
pacreas, blood, other organs, fingers, toes, legs, etc.
my friend's dad had diabetes, and he was missing several fingers and toes from it.
you have to be careful with diabetes it can cause permenant damage, death, or a coma. it is a very serious disease