Prediabetese-Intimation to Diabetese.

Are You One of The Prediabetics?

“You don’t know yet, right?” it is likely because almost 84% of people with prediabetes are unaware of it. You might be one of them. Though prediabetes comes with no particular manifestation, still an early identification will help you prevent type 2 diabetes.

What is Prediabetes?

Prediabetes means that your blood sugar levels are higher than the normal range. A higher blood sugar level is because your body cells haven’t absorbed enough glucose from your blood. Still, the situation isn’t unfavourable for you, as this is just an alert that your body is fighting to save you from getting diabetic.

What Causes Prediabetes?

Prediabetes is caused by poor functioning of a body hormone called insulin, produced by the pancreas. This hormone acts as a passcode to your body cells and opens them to intake blood glucose. Then, body cells break down glucose absorbed from the blood to produce energy. If this passcode isn’t working efficiently, body cells wouldn’t be able to respond to your blood sugar. It will remain stuck in your bloodstream resulting in higher blood sugar levels. Prediabetes is pre-call to evil diabetes.

Signs to Watch For:

No distinct symptoms of prediabetes are known yet. Where you will probably experience no noticeable sign of prediabetes, some warning signs may alert you from getting it. These include but are not limited to, surging thrust, hunger escalation even after hearty meals, lethargy, unanticipated weight loss, dark skin patches, perennial urination, etc.

Upshots of Prediabetes:

Excessive urination to push blood sugar out of your body causes dehydration and sluggishness. Dehydration leads to renal dysfunction. So all of these symptoms are interlinked with insulin irregularity.

Detection Methods:

Your physician or endocrinologist will suggest you one of the following tests to detect prediabetes.

• Blood Glucose Test in fasting.
• hbA1c, non-fasting blood test.

A fasting test will determine your blood sugar level during fasting. Level b/w 100 to 125 mg/dL suggests that you are prediabetic. A value above 125 mg/dL means that you have diabetes.

The non-fasting test gives you an average result of 3 months for your blood sugar level, measured in percentage. Percentage b/w 5.7% to 6.4% suggests prediabetic condition while above 6.4% means diabetes.

The impetus to prediabetes and prevention strategy:

Reasons:

Slacky lifestyle, junk foods, absence of physical activity, and obesity are bad habits that lead to prediabetes.

Prevention:

On the contrary, an active lifestyle, sports, exercise, healthy food intake, and a controlled weight will help you prevent prediabetes.

Is Prediabetes Amenable:

For sure, switching your lifestyle from indolent to alive, healthy foods intake and regular work-out can reverse prediabetes for most people. Some may require medication. But in any way that suits you, you need to prevent yourself from growing prediabetic to diabetic.