If you have diabetes, you could be damaging your kidneys

Diabetes has the potential to be an incredibly damaging condition, it’s a crafty disease which will slowly cripple you instead of striking your down as cancer might. There’s all sorts of damage that diabetes can do to a person but most of it is preventable providing the diabetic in question keeps their blood-sugar levels under control. This constant monitoring of blood-sugar and glucose intake can be a big lifestyle change for diabetics but once they’re used to taking that bit of extra care, they can live fairly normal lives and do most anything that other people can do.

As I say, any damage that diabetes will do will be slow. It’ll damage your eyes but you won’t notice it until you start to lose your vision, it’ll damage your nerves and you won’t notice that until you start to damage your extremities without noticing. Blindness and amputation are the two forms of damage which are most commonly associated with diabetes but they’re by no means the only kinds.
Diabetes causes the body to fail at extracting the blood-sugar from the blood stream and what’s filters that blood stream? The Kidneys of course. With more pollutant to filter out of the blood, the kidneys have to work much harder and as such they become strained. Over protracted periods of time this strain becomes damage and the kidneys either lose some functionality or simply fail altogether.

This is yet another reason for keeping those blood-sugar levels under control if you suffer from diabetes. It’s a frustration but it’s one which will save your life and maintain your standard of living for years and years to come! Check out some of our other articles to see easy ways to maintain a healthy level of blood-sugar and don’t be afraid to contact your doctor with any concerns!