How to identify diabetes at home? This question is asked, mainly the elderly. Indeed, it is very important to know the symptoms of the disease so that, without analysis, you can recognize in yourself signs of obvious distress. To identify diabetes mellitus without the involvement of a physician, at first glance, it seems unlikely. However, some symptoms are worth paying attention to. They will promptly prompt that there has been a significant malfunction in the work of the whole organism and will help diagnose the disease.
Dry mouth
Permanent thirst is not a norm option. It should be understood that if you often want to drink, then the body loses a lot of moisture and just tries to recover. Dry mouth, of course, can be caused by prolonged emotional overstrain, because there really is not enough water in the body. However, in some cases, thirst indicates a latent threat, an obvious unhappiness in the work of one single organ or a whole system of organs.
Diabetes mellitus is a very insidious disease. It is often masked by the symptoms of other diseases. Dry mouth is not a sentence yet. Do not try to put yourself a terrible diagnosis yourself. This approach can only exacerbate the situation, make you withdrawn and suspicious.
Rapid urination
If you notice a need for frequent visits to the toilet, this indicates that there are some changes in the work of the urinary system. Not always this phenomenon indicates the presence of a certain pathology. However, this symptom should be paid attention, especially when the symptoms are repeated for several weeks or even months in a row.
Rapid urination is not the norm for the human body. This phenomenon can be evidence of the onset of diabetes.
As a rule, the symptomatology is manifested gradually, but not immediately, increasing with time. Patients with diabetes mellitus as a whole become more susceptible, nervous, they have a fairly frequent urination.
Dryness of the skin
Such manifestations as itchy skin, pallor of the outer covers( especially on the face and hands) indicate an obvious unhappiness. You can not ignore such signs that make you suffer, do not allow you to fully live and enjoy life. It is worth paying attention to this, when a person suffers from itching for several months or even all year, regardless of seasonal temperature changes.
If in summer, in extreme heat, you experience dry skin, then it's time to seriously take care of your own health. Skin itch is not such an inoffensive thing, as it may seem at first glance. People often underestimate their own ailments and for this reason do not have the opportunity to start treatment on time.
Changes in appetite
Manifestations of true diabetes always affect changes in diet. Patients begin to suddenly change their taste preferences, often for themselves this is a real surprise. Changes in appetite can be observed both in one and the other direction. Someone suffers from a prolonged lack of appetite, feeling unable to eat an extra piece. Others feel uncontrolled bouts of gluttony, which usually intensifies in the dark.
If you are constantly experiencing a bout of hunger or, on the contrary, often refuse lunch or dinner, because you do not want to eat, you need to be alert. It is best to see a doctor and take all the necessary tests. The change in appetite is directly related to the phenomena occurring inside the body. In a healthy person, there are rarely significant changes in appetite fluctuation. Usually a person is saturated with the usual amount of food for him and at the same time feels great.
High fatigue
When a person feels constant fatigue, it's worth worrying. Increased fatigue does not always indicate that a person does not rest very much. If you do not pay attention to this symptom in time, you can go to such an extent that the forces simply will not be enough for anything. Usually this happens for no apparent reason. Simply suddenly, the desire to seriously engage in common affairs, which used to bring joy and pleasure, was suddenly lost. A person starts to get tired of ordinary, everyday activities: household needs, the need to go to the store, even get up in the morning from bed and perform hygiene procedures.
Fatigue leads to irritability, passive way of life, leads to inability to rejoice, to appreciate their own achievements, to make amazing discoveries. Check if you have any health problems, you can on this one feature. When there is severe fatigue, this indicates that the body needs to recover, come to order.
Constant fatigue
Following a high degree of fatigue with developing diabetes mellitus, fatigue begins to manifest. A person can hardly wait for the moment when he has an opportunity to go to bed. He often falls asleep in the daytime. All his life gradually focuses on rest and restoration of spent resources. From the side it may sometimes seem that he does not overwork, does not do anything special and does not suffer from fatigue at all. In fact, here the essence is not in fatigue, but in ailments.
Constant fatigue can also be a sign of progressive diabetes, even if the rest of the person feels completely healthy.
Increasing irritability
Many elderly people are puzzled by the question: how to determine diabetes? Some of them are seriously worried that they will not be able to notice the obvious symptoms of obvious trouble on their own and turn to a specialist in time to confirm the diagnosis. Gradually, the growing irritability indicates that something is happening to the person. Of course, there is not necessarily a sign that diabetes is present. Irritability has the property to manifest itself in many other diseases and certain mental disorders.
Irritability in diabetes is systematic. The person starts to worry literally everything: the way he looks, how he is treated not only by his relatives, but also completely bystanders, what other people might think about him. Often he can not restrain his own emotions: he is rude, withdrawn, expresses dissatisfaction on an insignificant occasion. Emotional instability always speaks of deep personal dissatisfaction. One gets the impression that a person feels unhappy, can not find something that really delighted him, gave him the strength to live on.
Visual impairment of
Diabetes mellitus is often a violation of visual perception. Patients complain that they have some blurred vision. It is especially difficult to navigate in space at night. If patients have to be somewhere outside their own home, there may be difficulties in moving.
It is impossible not to notice a visual impairment. It necessarily requires a responsible attitude and careful study of the situation. The earlier a person turns to a specialist, the easier it will be in the future to implement a course of treatment.
Thus, the first signs of diabetes can be determined at home, without resorting to the help of specialists. Of course, such self-diagnosis should not replace a medical examination to confirm the diagnosis.
