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Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes (Diabetes mellitus Type 2)
Type 2 diabetes mellitus or commonly known as noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) is a disease caused by diabetes because the body’s defenses, consists of the effects of insulin by pancreatic beta cells. This will cause the blood sugar out of control. Family history of obesity and diabetes, suffered the risk factors for suspicion of this disease.
Insulin is a hormone that is produced by pancreatic beta cells. They vary in normal conditions, insulin levels with the rate of glucose in the blood. The insulin level increased immediately after a meal and leave if you do not eat anything. The main function of insulin, glucose in the blood by the body’s metabolism to produce energy distribution. If you exceed the levels of sugar or glucose, may require that the surplus is stored in the liver. Reduced glucose if need arises, for example, if our bodies are hungry.
When a person suffers from diabetes mellitus type 2, then there are two possibilities, which are produced in the pancreas contains beta cells or insulin phase of production is not sufficient, but the body resistant to insulin. Both circumstances will cause increases in blood sugar.
Fortunately, the body has a very good mechanism to notify us if there is an anomaly. It is important to know the symptoms of type 2 diabetes at an early stage because early treatment undertaken to achieve better results and less hope that the appearance of complications. Here are some of the symptoms of type 2 diabetes must be careful.
Fatigue is the first symptom in patients with type 2 diabetes experience. The patient feels weak, even if your body does not produce all the activities that are not too heavy. So if you’re still tired and sleepy, even before you can not slip or feel that will help you immediately see a doctor.
The drastic weight loss. If you eat too much, your body is fat. Excess body fat causes the body to increase insulin resistance. In people with diabetes, but he ate his food, but not too thick and take care of themselves because the muscles have not received enough energy to grow.
Vision problems. High blood sugar pull fluid into the cell, so cells become wrinkled. This situation also occurs in the eye’s lens when the lens is damaged and the patient will experience vision problems. This would improve visual disorders, if treated properly successful diabetes mellitus. With proper management, these vision problems worsen and lead to blindness.
Frequently infected and, if difficult to heal wounds. This may occur because the bacteria that thrive because of blood sugar. In addition, fungi are also his very dear glucose grow at a high level.
Thus some additional symptoms that view disease, diabetes mellitus type 2.
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Diseases of The External Ear Otitis
Otitis externa is an inflammation of the ear canal.
These infections can attack the entire canal (otitis externa generalized) or only in specific areas, such as cooking furunkel) (.
OE is often) as ear Swimmer’s ear (nadador.
Generalized number of bacteria or fungi (rarely) may cause otitis externa, staph bacteria often cause ulcers.
Some people (people with allergies, psoriasis), eczema or dermatitis) is on the scalp is very sensitive to external otitis.
) Violation of the ear canal during cleaning or water ingress / stimuli (such as a spray or paint on the hair can lead to otitis externa.
You can clean the ear canal with a way to remove dead skin cells, even from the eardrum through the ear canal.
) The cleaning of the ear canal with a cotton swab (cotton cleaners, can interfere with the cleaning mechanism and perhaps the skin cells that stimulate the eardrum to the mound there.
The accumulation of serum and skin cells to die is an accumulation of water in the main channel for bathing or swimming. Skin soft and moist in the ear canal is more easily infected by bacteria or fungi.
Symptoms of generalized external otitis are itching, pain and nausea.
If the ear canal swells or fills with pus and skin cells are dead, there may be loss of hearing.
usually if you pull the ears or in front of the ear canal skin is pressed, it will be pain.
Otoscope with ear canal skin is red, swollen, pus-filled skin cells are dead.
Ulcers caused great pain.
If it breaks asthma, leave the blood and pus in the ear.
general treatment of otitis externa, the first removal of dead cells infected ear canal suction or dry cotton. cleaned after the ear canal, in general, function returns to normal hearing.
Usually given antibiotic ear drops for several days. Steroid few drops ear inflammation.
Sometimes ear drops obtained with acetic acid to restore the acid in the ear canal.
Reducing pain in the first 24-48 hours can be given acetaminophen or codeine.
Infection that has spread outside the ear canal (cellulitis), is with oral antibiotics (by mouth) were treated.
Kitchen burst itself, because if you accidentally cut may lead to the spread of infection.
Ear drops containing antibiotics are not effective.
They can relieve pain and promote healing to be done, hot pack (one minute) and the provision of drugs for pain.
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