Now we live more time, but if we are not careful we can be sick, since aging and bad lifestyles increase the risk of chronic degenerative conditions, mainly heart disease, diabetes or cancer, causes that together are responsible for one of each ofTwo deaths in Mexico.
Only diabetes causes around 85 thousand deaths per year, that is, nine every hour or one every seven minutes.It is a great threat to health and well -being in our country, and how not?If we also have a frightful first place in Diabetes Mellitus among OECD countries.
Diabetes complications .After several years of suffering and without control, complications occur, the most frequent are:
Blindness, for damage to the blood vessels of the retina (layer in the eye that transforms the images into nerve signals that are sent to the brain).
Diabetic foot, are ulcers on the feet or legs that can lead to amputation.
Diabetic neuropathy is the damage to the nerves of the body, which is manifested by pain, tingling, loss of sensitivity, digestive problems and erectile dysfunction.
Cardiac attacks or embolisms.
renal insufficiency .How is the kidney damage in diabetes?
Excess sugar in a chronic way in several tissues such as eye, nerves and kidneys has a metabolic avalanche effect, complex mechanisms are triggered that have to do with enzymes, proteins and genes that together cause inflammation, stress and stress andoxidation in nephrons cells.The nephrons are thousands of structures that filter the blood in the kidneys, the damage they suffer causes them to swell, scars and lose their ability to clean the blood and eliminate excess fluid.
In diabetes, renal damage can occur 5 or 10 years before the symptoms begin, so the proper control of sugar and regular exams is so important to see that the kidneys are fine.
Prevention or healing?When you are ill, the same measures will avoid or reduce the risk of complications.
Other ways to help kidneys is treating blood pressure, avoiding self -medication, especially analgesics or antibiotics that can damage it, as well as soft drinks and other sugary drinks, which also increase the risk of stones in the kidneys.
For people who have not been able to avoid renal failure, options are dialysis, hemodialysis or renal transplantation.
It is never too late to prevent, the next time they offer you a sugary drink, remember your kidney, drink simple water.