Symptoms of Diabetes
Listed on this slide you can see the symptoms of diabetes for both type 1 and type 2, and some of these include extreme hunger or thirst. When we talk about extreme thirst, this is really your body's way of trying to dilute the concentration of blood glucose. Fatigue or irritability—your body's cells are essentially starving because they can't get the glucose they need into the cell where it can do its work and be used as energy, and so you might feel fatigued or irritable. Infections—when you look on the type 2 diabetes side. High levels of blood glucose can impair our immune system and thus lead to more frequent infections. The tingling or numbness could be due to nerve damage that's caused by, again, having high levels of blood glucose. So you can see that really there are a wide range of symptoms, but all of which have to do with those high levels of blood glucose and having your body try to deal with those high levels of blood glucose.