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What sorts of things might you feel with Type 1 Diabetes?
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What sorts of things might you feel with Type 1 Diabetes?

Dr Sheharyar Quraishi, Consultant Endocrinologist and Diabetologist talks about what symptoms people can experience if they develop Type 1 Diabetes.

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Diabetes, like any other form of diabetes, patients would have experience of a huge amount of weight loss. It could be up to 5% of the normal body weight, unintentional symptoms, osmotic in our language, It essentially means that they pee a lot overnight, they drink a lot of water, they could have infections in the skin or anywhere really, for which there is no improvement even with antibiotics. In another extreme, the patients can become unconscious and they could require admission a hospital. But that's why a treatment of insulin isn't warranted as soon as possible because it could be a fatal and life-threatening.

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