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If you find out a sugar value higher than normal in your blood, apart from other characteristic clinical signs and symptoms it is more than certain that you suffer from diabetes.

The signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes appear relatively quickly, from a few days to 2-3 months and they are:

• Excessive thirst
• Abundant urination
• Tiredness
• Exaggerated hunger
• Weakness and loss of weight eve if appetite sometimes is high; however this symptom can be rare.

The signs and the symptoms of type 2 diabetes appear later, during the evolution of the disease. Many persons don’t have any symptoms when the disease is detected. The patient does not know that he or she suffers from diabetes. This is often detected on the occasion of laboratory tests performed occasionally. Be careful, that sometimes the moment of the disease detection does not correspond to the moment of type 2 diabetes occurrence, which might have appeared some years before.

When the sugar value in your blood is higher than 180 mg/dl, glucose appears in the urine and the following symptoms appear:

• Excessive thirst which is associated with the consumption of high amounts of water. Some persons may consume even 4-6 liters of water per day, which can be a warning sign.
• Abundant urination: it may happen that the patient who suffers from diabetes gets up even at night to go to the toilet.
• Tiredness associated with irritability
• Loss of weight although the patient may eat a lot, but this can be explained by the tendency of the impossibility of the body to use the food and the auto digestion tendency for survival (the organism starts consuming from itself if it can’t use the food)
• Sight problems
• Repeated infections which can’t be cured

All these symptoms, especially when they are detected together are very important and it should always lead to a sugar level test, in order to see if you suffer from diabetes.

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