Attention to the prognosis of diabetes
Curability
Neither type 1 diabetes nor type 2 diabetes is curable, and treatment aims to control the progression of the disease and prevent complications that seriously endanger the patient's health. Type 1 diabetes requires lifelong insulin injections to regulate blood sugar; type 2 diabetes can restore blood sugar to normal through measures such as diet adjustment and exercise before it reaches the stage of diagnosis, but for long-term type 2 diabetes, lifestyle improvements can't reverse the disease, which requires lifelong drug treatment. Most complications of diabetes are also difficult to cure, progress slowly, or occur repeatedly.
Complication
Diabetes can cause vascular and nerve lesions, resulting in various complications, which seriously threaten the patient's health and life.
- Central nervous system lesions can accelerate brain aging, causing senile dementia.
- Autonomic neuropathy can affect the functional regulation of multiple organs, causing diarrhea, constipation, stomach nausea, tachycardia, hypotension, urinary incontinence, urinary retention, impotence, abnormal light reflex, hyperhidrosis or hypohidrosis, and a series of complex lesions.
- Peripheral neuropathy can cause patients to lose their sense of pain, and they can’t be discovered in time when they are injured or suffer from some diseases, which will delay the disease.
- Peripheral vascular lesions can cause blood vessel occlusion and blood flow interruption, causing ulcers or even necrosis in the limbs, and eventually, amputation is necessary.
- Diabetic retinopathy can gradually reduce the patient's vision until blindness.
- Diabetic nephropathy can slowly progress to renal failure, requiring dialysis or kidney transplantation.
- The impact of diabetes on blood vessels can also increase the risk of various chronic cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
In addition: high blood sugar can make it difficult to cure infections and wounds, making it difficult to treat many diseases. Diabetes and its treatment can also directly cause death if blood sugar is too high or too low.