Can I expect diabetes patients have normal life?
Yes, absolutely a Diabetic patient can lead a normal life when it is managed properly with proper diet, physical acitivity, being compliant with medications and regulat doctor visits.
Last updated on 12 Dec 2024
Over time, type 1 diabetes complications can affect major organs in your body, including heart, blood vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys. Maintaining a normal blood sugar level can dramatically reduce the risk of many complications. Eventually, diabetes complications may be disabling or even life-threatening.
Your genes definitely play a role in type 1, a less common form of diabetes that's often diagnosed in children and young adults.
Babies of GDM mothers may have more birth weight, preterm birth and respiratory distress, low blood sugar shortly after birth and hypoglycemic seizures, still birth and obesity/ diabetes later in their life.
Raised blood sugar can damage back of the eye - retina causing Diabetic retinopathy, which left untreated can lead to blindness. This makes children with Diabetes at high risk when compared to normal childern.
Gestational diabetes is diabetes diagnosed for the first time during pregnancy. It can can be managed with diet, life style modifications and medications to lower blood sugar level.
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