No symptoms diabetes but coming late with cataract complication

A newly diagnosed diabetic typically presents with characteristic symptoms such as excessive thirst, frequent urination, unexpected weight loss or gain, tiredness, hunger, giddiness and blurred vision. These symptoms are present in both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetics. Type 2 diabetics (also commonly called diabetes two) may also present with an increased frequency of infections especially fungal infections, and poor-healing cuts.

However there is another group of diabetics who have no diabetic symptoms (asymptomatic) . These people with no symtoms diabetes may be diagnosed only when they present with complications of untreated diabetes such as visual problems, heart attacks, strokes and kidney failure. It is thus essential for us to identify those who are asymptomatic or are predisposed to diabetes. A major risk factor is heredity. Persons who have close relatives with the disease have a higher risk of developing it, and the more relatives or the closer the relatives are, the higher the risk. For example, if the mother or father or siblings are diabetic, the chances are higher, and increase if both parents are, or more siblings are.

Other predisposing causes of diabetes are overweight, exposure to continued intake of alcohol, race (native Americans, Africans and Asians being more susceptible), a sedentary lifestyle, and diabetes in pregnancy.

Diabetes and Hair Loss

The most common form of diabetes mellitus is Type 2 Diabetes (also known as diabetes two). This is also a very underdiagnosed condition, with millions of people unaware that they have diabities until it is seen on a routine sugar blood level test or until they get complications from this illness.

Diabetes occurs because the body either does not produce enough insulin it needs or the insulin does not reach the required cells. In diabetes, microcirculation is impaired – blood does not reach where it needs to go.

In order to understand how diabetes and hair loss are connected, it is essential have a quick understanding of the physiology of hair growth.

Hair growth goes through phases of growth (2 to 6 years), resting (2 to 3 months), and dropping for each hair follicle, with a new hair redeveloping in the follicle after the last hair has dropped. In diabetes, because of poor microcirculation to the hair root, the rate of redevelopment of the new hair is slowed.

There are a few other ways diabities is related to hair loss.

If the hair loss is related to fungal infection secondary to the diabetic condition, treatment of the fungus will stop further hair loss.
Stress caused by chronic diabities can lead to hair loss.
Similarly medications prescribed for diabetes two can also lead to hair loss.