About complications of prediabetes told Volgograd doctor
How to protect nerves in diabetes: explains the neurologist (based on the materials of the Health Committee of the Volgograd region)
If you have diabetes or prediabetes, it’s important to be aware of the risk of polyneuropathy, a nerve lesion that can make your foot less sensitive, upset your balance, and even lead to ulcers.
Neurologist Srednekhtuba CRB Gulzhamila Zhevnar says that diabetic neuropathy affects the nerves responsible for movements, sensations, and even the work of internal organs.
What increases the risk? High sugar, excess weight, smoking, hypertension, age and long experience of diabetes.
The disease is different: some people feel burning and tingling (this is a sensory form), others - weakness in the muscles (motor), and sometimes a combination of these problems. Sometimes internal organs also suffer: heart, stomach, etc. (vegetative form).
The danger is that at the start, a person may feel nothing, although changes are already underway. Later, pain, numbness, “cotton” legs appear. In severe cases - ulcers and deformities of the feet.
The good news is that a lot of things can be prevented. The doctor advises:
Prevention is not just about being healthier, it’s about taking concrete steps: fewer risk factors and more beneficial activity.
