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Why is blood sugar control so important in Diabetes?
Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse explains why blood sugar control control is so important. She explains that damage is being done to arteries and nerves and other tissues in your organs without you knowing. She talks about possible silent heart attacks, strokes, damage to the nerves of your feet and damage to the kidneys.
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It is important to prevent complications of diabetes if they have poorly controlled diabetes, it can again affect the whole body. People cannot see if the damage is being done in their body. They think they're okay because they're not feeling the symptoms actually from the diagnosis of diabetes. If they are not controlling damage slowly is being done. They can, that's a sad thing in diabetes because they think they're fine. Nothing is happening to them, but it's affecting their arteries and their veins and their nerves. They become narrow because of of the high blood glucose levels. And then the circulation get affected. Then starting from like eyes, their eyes get affected is called retinopathy. They can get a heart attack. People get a silent heart attack. They don't even feel the chest pain. And then they can have a heart attack. They can get a stroke. They can get have kidney failure. And then nerves in the feet get affected where they don't have sensation in their feet. And that's really serious if the people are not examining their feet with their naked eyes and they are relying on their feeling. If they hurt their foot, if there is a discoloration, then that can develop into an ulcer. And if it's not treated, it can be seriously, people can have an amputation, which is not really nice. you
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