Other names: hyperglycemia, increased blood sugar
Blood sugar is due to hormones (insulin) is maintained in a certain ideal range, even after a meal when the body once received a large number of energy-rich substances.
When insulin production is reduced, or if the insulin is poorly binds to cell transfer of glucose from blood into tissues seriously and blood sugar increases. If it exceeds a value of 10 mmol / L, then the sugar begins to appear in the urine and entrains the water which would normally be returned back into the body. This causes one of the symptoms of diabetes – thirst.
Determination of blood sugar (glucose) can be done in the laboratory or using a simple device(meter). It can be assumed that this symptom is detected in a doctor’s office or in a medical facility, where you can immediately advise on the need for further investigation and possible treatment.
Yet undiagnosed or poorly treated diabetes (insulin dose omission) can result in a condition called acute hyperglycemic coma ketoacidotic. This is usually the first symptom of type I diabetes in young people (insufficient formation of insulin in the pancreas). Although blood glucose excess, deficiency of insulin causes tissue paradoxically “starving” and leads to massive activation stocks fats. Some of the fatty acids are transformed to ketone bodies, which acidifies the internal environment and is toxic to the nervous system. The condition develops gradually lost consciousness precedes nausea, abdominal pain and deep breathing. Out of breath smells sweet apple aroma (due to the volatile acetone, which is one of the three ketone bodies, which in the described condition are formed in the body).
In developing these symptoms summon an ambulance.
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