Diabetes mellitus is a serious pathological condition that progresses and becomes younger every year. It is important to identify as soon as possible its most reliable signs even at home.
Diabetes mellitus can last for a long time, but when it is detected, as a rule, the disease is already in a neglected state, which has negative consequences. If among relatives there is at least one person suffering from this disease, you should always carefully listen to your own organism and monitor your health. There are certain symptoms that will help to understand at home, whether there are suspicions of diabetes.
The main signs of diabetes
Indirect signs of the disease include:
- Chronic thirst and polyuria, especially at night.
- Excessively dry skin.
- Rapid weight loss for no apparent reason.
- Strong cramps in the calf muscles.
- Problems with eyesight.
- Frequent itching of the entire body.
If you have identified at least one of these symptoms, then such symptoms may indicate not only diabetes. To clarify the diagnosis, you need to check the entire body in a complex manner. But how to recognize diabetes unmistakably at home? To do this, you need to know the level of sugar in the urine and blood.
How to determine the blood sugar level of the house
In order for you to be able to determine the sugar content in the blood, you need to purchase a quality glucometer and special test strips. In the morning on an empty stomach it is necessary to pierce with a sterile fine needle a finger, to drop a little blood on the test strip, and then to bring a strip into the device, where it will accurately determine the sugar level within a short period of time. Then the figure obtained is compared with the reference values. If there is an increase, then you need to contact the endocrinologist to clarify the diagnosis and find out the subsequent treatment.
How to determine sugar in urine
A test for determining sugar in the urine is a reliable diagnostic criterion, since test strips determine sugar in the urine only when it has passed the blood in the blood for the level of 10 mmol per liter. If the sugar is present, then the blood glucose level is increased. That you could check yourself, you should get a test strip in the pharmacy reacting to glucose in the urine. If glucose is detected, the doctor should be consulted immediately.
