Child-Health: Complications Related to Diabetes

Complications relate to diabetes concern in having high blood sugar levels for a long time. But it’s not the only factor that causes someone’s risk. Genetic also can play a role. Commonly, this disease doesn’t have clear manifestation until many years you had it. They develop silently and dramatically over time, so your child still eventually gave complication without any symptoms.

It’s difficult for kids to change their daily habits to decrease risk for health problems. However, being aware the complication of diabetes can help you avoid them. There are many ways to manage their diabetes such as good nutrition, regular exercise or medication and always under the following of the doctor.

Complications that related to diabetes:

• Eye Problems
• Kidneys Disease
• Nerve Damage
• Heart and Blood vessels Disease

Eye Problem

Children may have the greater risk of developing eye problem caused by diabetes. Cataract is one example. Cataract is a disease that feels thick and cloudy of the lens of the eye which is the important part of the eye which helps you focus on everything you see. People who have diabetes will develop cataract faster than normal people. That can make your eye be blurry or impair night vision. If your vision has this problem, you can be surgically removed.

Kidney Disease

The cause which damages the blood vessels in the kidneys and leads to diabetic nephropathy is high blood sugar. That makes your body stop functioning properly. When this happens, the blood is not filtered build up so it can affect to other organs. Kidney disease in early stages doesn’t cause symptoms, but it makes kidney failure. Some circumstances which people easy to get kidney disease are

• People have had poor long-term blood sugar control.
• People on whom diabetes doesn’t occur before puberty.
• People have hypertension and usually use tobacco.

Nerve Damage

Another complication that people who had diabetes for a long time is diabetic neuropathy. That involves nerves in many different parts of the body. But we can realize through some symptoms like numbness, tingling, pains in the feet or lower legs. If you don’t treat on time, nerve damage can lead to many other health problems.

The disease can happen anywhere in your child’s body. The examples are the digestive system, urinary system, eye, heart. The risk of that decrease over time. Even though diabetic neuropathy often occurs after puberty, but also it can be with young people with poor blood sugar control.

Heart and Blood Vessel Diseases

If you have diabetes, the ability you develop the cardiovascular disease is higher. That include heart attack, stroke or blockage of blood vessels in legs and feet.

The important cause in these above diseases is blood sugar problems. However you are having diabetes or not, if you are smoking or having the abnormal level of triglycerides and cholesterol, high blood pressure, you may have the risk of these problems before 50 years old.

Through this article, you can have more necessary information about complications concern in diabetes. Hope it is helpful to care for your kids.

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