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DR. MAUSETH:
Now, the symptoms
of diabetes are most of the time increased urination, increased
thirst. What happens is that when the blood
sugar goes up, more sugar comes out in the urine.
It's like if you take a cube of sugar and put
on a drop of water it will suck the water up
into it. And so what happens is sugar gets to
the kidneys, it causes increased urination, then
the patient gets dehydrated. When the patient
gets dehydrated they get thirsty. Usually what
happens is they start drinking more juice or
more pop. When they drink more juice and pop
the blood sugar goes higher, the urination
increases and then they start getting more
thirsty and it's a vicious cycle along that
pattern.
When the sugar doesn't get into
the cells and doesn't get utilized correctly,
they start getting weight loss, fatigue because
the cells are not getting fed, and you get poor
healing. And in more extreme cases you start
getting numbness and tingling, which are kind of
the later phases, but if you're starting to have
any of these kinds of symptoms you ought to at
least let your child's physician know.
