Blood sugar levels in people with uncontrolled diabetes can cause various complications. One of the bad conditions and expensive is the cause of kidney failure sufferers forced to wash the blood.
"Most dialysis patients are usually people with diabetes and high blood followed," said Dante Saksono Harbuwono, specialist in diseases of Metabolic and Endocrine Division, University of Indonesia, in the speech arena of diabetes on Women Health Expo, Friday (5/2/2010) .
Just to illustrate, in the American study, 100 percent of dialysis patients, about 43 percent of whom are people with diabetes, 28 percent of people with high blood pressure, and the rest for other diseases.
Chronic diseases
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease caused by blood sugar levels are high. High blood sugar levels were caused by the inability of the body to produce the hormone insulin or ineffective use of insulin production. Blood sugar may rise as food, stress, illness, and certain medications.
Dante said, when blood sugar is not controlled, complications can occur. Complications associated with metabolic changes. In the kidney, for example, an interruption or change in the circulation and filtration functions.
In the kidney there are millions of tiny blood vessels that act as filters to remove waste products from the blood. Blood sugar levels high to make the kidneys filter too much blood.
After a few years, a filter system so that the protein would leak out in the urine. Work kidney weight causes the kidneys lose the ability to filter blood, causing kidney failure. Control of blood sugar and blood pressure will reduce the possibility of kidney damage.
"Blood pressure should also be kept high not because the join effect on function as well," he said. How to keep blood sugar levels and blood pressure, among others, with proper diet, regular exercise, and consumption of drugs if necessary.
Flab
Another complication is the disruption of the heart. Approximately 75-80 percent of deaths in diabetes due to heart failure and blood vessels. This is because the incidence of fatty deposits in blood vessels so that blood flow was delayed. If it happens in the heart blood vessels, can cause a heart attack.
In addition, complications can also happen to other blood vessels in the eye (blindness), genitals, legs, and brain.
Trigger diabetes mellitus, among others, is the lack of motion, overeating, pregnancy, and lack of insulin production. Diabetes can not be cured, but the blood sugar levels can be controlled so that various complications can be prevented.
Dante said, type II diabetes problem more serious. The number of sufferers continues to grow. In Jakarta, for example, in 1980, the prevalence of diabetes of 2.8 per cent and in 2005 to 12.1 percent.
One obstacle is the handling of diabetes patients do not seek the correct information and try to treat themselves. Sufferers, for example, assume, consume the bitter-bitter, like brotowali, pare, or fruit mengkudu, will fight diabetes.
Often times after consuming the materials and do not do people with more control of the disease. Another problem is that people with low compliance. Having no symptoms, then the pattern of living with Asperger's bad back. (INE)
Source: Kompas.com | February 6, 2010- Posted By Rudi
