JAKARTA - Parents need to be vigilant for their children to get diabetes mellitus if they still often accompany them even though they have finished toilet training. Children with diabetes are also often tired quickly and physical activities that are not too good.
Because blood sugar in the blood is high, many of it will come out of the kidneys. Symptoms often lie or urinate a lot. One of the other symptoms is that they often accompany on even days, said Edokrin Consultant Child Specialist Ghasani Fadiana as quoted by ANTARA, Saturday, December 3.
Another symptom of diabetes is drinking a lot, this is because children often urinate so that it results in lack of fluids and the body responds by requiring more water. As a result, children will often drink and even often look likeURE.
"In addition, it is accompanied by often looking hungry, so a little bit like to eat but strangely the weight doesn't rise or the weight goes down. That's the main symptom," he said.
If the child already has symptoms of diabetes, he advises parents to immediately check their child with a pediatrician.
"Usually it will be asked again what kind of family history. If there were symptoms that led to diabetes symptoms, of course there would be some examinations and after that a blood test would be carried out," he explained.
As for adult diabetes mellitus, on the same occasion, endocrine, Metabolic and Diabetes Specialists Dicky L Phaseary said that basically having the same symptoms as children, namely frequent urinating.
Patients with diabetes mellitus usually come for treatment if they have experienced complaints due to high blood sugar, such as frequent urinating, frequent thirst and hunger and loss of weight for no apparent reason. In addition, usually diabetes mellitus is only detected after a patient has complications such as sneering in the legs, erectile disorders, heart attacks, decreased kidney function and stroke.
"For adults, if there are complaints of diabetes or there is a risk of evaluating so that they can be found as early as possible because the symptoms only arise when blood sugar is high enough or complications of any type of diabetes arise," he said.
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