Is diabetes caused by eating too many sweets? Actually, this is a myth. A 28-year-old woman, diagnosed with diabetes, has a normal figure, no symptoms of "three highs", no bad living habits, and doesn't like sweets or drinks. After the doctor asked, she was surprised. This is her "nature of work"!
Huang Huilun, a doctor of family medicine, shared a 28-year-old woman seeking medical treatment in the program "Doctor Fever" and exclaimed, "How can she get diabetes at such a young age? The doctor is also puzzled, because she is of medium height, has no symptoms of three highs, no signs of weight loss, and has no symptoms but is infected for no reason.
Night shift will increase the risk of diabetes.
Recently, however, this lady felt very tired at work and couldn't recover after a long rest. The average person can get over a cold in 1 or 2 weeks, but she puts it off until 1 month. Later, she learned that her job required "night shift", which led to her being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes after blood drawing.
Huang Huilun said that he later checked the literature and found that some studies pointed out that if women work at night, the risk of diabetes will greatly increase. Working three days a month increases the risk of diabetes11%; If/kloc-0 works 8 days a month at night, it may increase the risk by more than 36%, and women are prone to type 2 diabetes.
The woman had to take turns for work reasons, but in just three years she changed from normal blood sugar to diabetes. Therefore, doctors also remind people who have to take turns to work at night to have better exercise habits, a balanced diet and enough water to reduce the harm caused by staying up late.
Jiang Bingying, an expert in sleep medicine, once said that if you want to reduce the harm of staying up late for a long time, it is suggested that you can concentrate on staying up late as much as possible. For example, in this case, a 28-year-old woman has to stay up late because of work. It is best for ordinary people not to stay up late. Staying up late is very harmful to the body, which not only increases the risk of illness, but also causes physiological clock disorder.
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In addition, in order to control diabetes, in addition to avoiding abnormal sleep habits, we should also reduce unhealthy eating out and excessive sugar intake, otherwise "diabetic retinopathy" may appear like the following example, leading to decreased vision or even blindness!
Causes of diabetes: unhealthy eating out and sugar intake.
According to TomoNews, a man surnamed Lu in Wuhan, Hubei, China recently felt a shadow flash across his right eye. At first, he thought he was too tired, so he just needed more rest. After three weeks, the situation did not improve, so I went to see a doctor. The doctor told him that he had "diabetic retinopathy" and the retinal microvasculature behind the eyeball had been damaged. If not treated in time, he will be in great danger of blindness.
It turns out that this man surnamed Lu has been suffering from diabetes for 4 to 5 years, but he has never realized his eating habits, which has a great influence on other parts of his body. It is reported that he doesn't like cooking and lives alone, so he usually buys things to eat outside and drinks soda, cola and other drinks almost every day, which leads to diabetes.
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Now we all know that diabetes is not a patent for the elderly. People with poor eating habits and lack of exercise will also get diabetes at a young age. Regardless of type I (insulin-dependent IDDM) or type II (non-insulin-dependent NIDDM) patients, long-term increase of blood sugar will cause retinal microangiopathy, which is called diabetic retinopathy.
Can diabetic patients be afraid of blindness because of poor eyesight? What is diabetic retinopathy?
According to the data from the Department of Medical Ophthalmology of National Taiwan University, almost all patients with 1 type diabetes will develop retinopathy after 15 to 20 years, and 20% to 30% of them will be blind. More than 60% patients with type 2 will suffer from retinopathy, which is the most important cause of blindness among people aged 20 to 65.
In addition to hyperglycemia, race, genetic inheritance, blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and proteinuria are all factors of diabetic retinopathy. Patients with diabetic retinopathy may have visual impairment due to insufficient blood flow in the optic disc or retina, but there is no obvious structural change. They may also lose their vision due to macular edema, vitreous hemorrhage, retinal detachment or neovascular glaucoma.
According to the severity of retinopathy, it is divided into five grades in medicine. The first grade, no obvious lesions; In the second stage, only tiny hemangioma appeared; The third stage is not only the appearance of micro hemangioma; The fourth grade changes are severe retinal hemorrhage, venous string changes or abnormal microvessels in the retina. The fifth stage is neovascularization or vitreous or omental hemorrhage. Grade 5 patients must actively receive treatment, otherwise they will continue to deteriorate, and the next step is blindness.
Diabetic retinopathy is a lifelong disease, and diabetic patients should have regular eye examinations.
Kaohsiung Rong's "Micro-focus World" also reminds people that diabetics only pay attention to the control of blood sugar, but ignore the conditions of other parts of the body, especially the eyes. Some patients come to see a doctor when their eyes are blurred or invisible. At this time, the eyes are often proliferative retinopathy or vitreous hemorrhage (that is, the fourth and fifth grades mentioned in the previous paragraph), and the patient must undergo surgery to restore part of his vision.