Insulin is made in the pancreas. If no or insufficient insulin is made, or when the body no longer responds to insulin, the body has trouble to get glucose from the blood. The blood flows remains around and can not be used for energy. The result is very thirsty and urinating a lot. Because the body tries to glucose in a different way to lose. As someone not glucose, so no power can take, he feels tired.
What symptoms and what consequences?
The regulation of glucose in the body is complex and varies according to blood glucose:
Without insulin, blood glucose rises: is hyperglycemia. The excess glucose will be partially eliminated in the urine, resulting in an increased need to urinate and increased thirst. If these signs are ignored several days, hyperglycemia can become very dangerous. In the very long term, hyperglycemia can have serious health consequences. The low rate of glucose or ‘hypo’ is the consequence of excess insulin, most often due to a processing error in children with diabetes. Hypoglycemia may also be the consequence of consumption of glucose more than expected for example in case of unexpected prolonged physical effort. It can occur suddenly with symptoms reflecting the reaction of the nervous system at the lack of glucose as paleness, sweating and trembling, but also behavioral problems, aggression or apathy, or even loss of consciousness, which reflect the lack of glucose level brain. Severe hypoglycemia is exceptional in school.
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