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What are the main complications that can happen with Diabetes?
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What are the main complications that can happen with Diabetes?

Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse explains what the main risk of getting Diabetes complications are. She mentions a number of different problems which can occur with various organs in our bodies including eyes, heart, brain, kidney and feet.

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So when people have diabetes, the key thing is to control the diabetes. If they control the diabetes, they can live like any normal person. If the diabetes is not well controlled, they can develop complications of diabetes, starting from like eyes, which is we call the retinopathy, where the back of their eyes, the retina get affected and people can go blind. So then we come down to the heart, people can get heart attack, people can, their nervous system get affected, they can get stroke. Then we come down these kidneys, their kidneys get affected, it's called nephropathy. And then the feet, feet, When people have diabetes for a long time, or even if they did not have it for a long time, but they have not been controlling well, they can get neuropathy in the feet. means their feet does not feel, their sensation gets lost or maybe impaired their sensation. For example, if they hit their foot somewhere and they have not visually examined and they have not felt that, it can develop into an ulcer and people sadly can get amputation if they are not looked after. So these are the main complications of diabetes.

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