Diabetes Awareness Month starts today, did you know? Let’s join forces with everyone who does and who doesn’t suffer from this disease and help!
Each year, we celebrate this day and month as the beginning of the new awakening among people to fight diabetes. Approximately 30 million Americans have prediabetes and diabetes. Millions and millions organizations participate in numerous events related to diabetes with the aim to raise awareness. That being said, this year, in the US, special events are planned specifically for diabetes screening. The screening has an aim to prevent more serious complications for those with type II diabetes, as well as for those who are showing first symptoms of prediabetes. In the name of Diabetes Awareness Month, we’ll help by reinstating diabetes risk factors and help raise awareness for prevention.
Diabetes Awareness Month – Diabetes risk factors
Main factor – family history
If someone in your family has diabetes, you’re at a greater risk for getting type II diabetes. Diabetes runs in the family. So, if you have diabetes family history, and you’re experiencing some diabetes symptoms, please do the screening.
Word of advice: If you’re pregnant and you have prediabetes or gestational diabetes, your child most probably can develop some sort of diabetes.
You’re overweight
When you’re overweight, you have fatty tissue stored all over your body. This fatty tissue causes resistance to insulin, resulting to diabetes development.
Sedentary lifestyle
Your job position requires a lot of sitting. You don’t have a job and all you do is sit around the house… If you see yourself in these categories, then you’re at great risk of getting type II diabetes. Being active is the best thing you can do to be in a good shape, allowing glucose to make your cells open to insulin.
Prediabetes and gestational diabetes
If you already have prediabetes or gestational diabetes, you’re at great risk of type II diabetes. Prediabetes is when your blood sugar level is high, but not enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Gestational diabetes develops during pregnancy.
Diabetes symptoms
Diabetes symptoms include sore throat, itching in the genital are, weight loss, blurred vision, infections, frequent urination, feeling of weakness and tiredness.
As soon as you experience these symptoms, and you see that they last longer than expected, you need to pay your doctor a visit. These are the preliminary high blood sugar levels symptoms, signaling that you’re at risk of getting type II diabetes. If you check yourself on time, you’ll prevent it.