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The numbers are surely attention getting: nearly 7 million Americans have undiagnosed diabetes. What gets less notice are the early warning signs.

“If they’re not going to their doctor, if they’re not seeing their physician they’re not having those lab works, they’re not reporting their signs they could just be going along with their normal daily activities,” says Melanie Aracri, a certified diabetes educator for Lee Health.

All too often patients show up at a hospital in a health crisis and find out they have highly elevated blood sugar. New studies find 1 in 10 heart attack patients may have undetected diabetes. We’ve broken down 5 warnings signs that should get your attention.

“The three classic signs of high blood sugar, we call them the three “P”s: polyphagia, polydipsia, and polyuria. Those are increased thirst, increased hunger, and increased urination,” says Aracri.

It’s easy to minimize increased thirst, especially when it’s hot. And frequent urination seems to naturally follow. But experts say it could be our body’s way of flushing extra glucose.

“The kidney has to work really hard to get that blood sugar out, that blood glucose out when it’s high,” says Aracri.

Wounds that don’t heal could be another warning sign.

“The body’s not able to fight that infection because of that extra glucose in the system,” says Aracri.

Frequent yeast or urinary tract infections may also be a red flag many people fail to consider. The earlier diabetes is picked up, the easier it is to avoid complications.

“it’s a learning how to adapt your eating pattern, your meal plan to your lifelong activities and daily habits,” says Aracri.

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Raising awareness about raising blood sugar. Diet concerns are one of the first topics a diabetes educator will address.

“Look at how many foods we have you know, look down the aisles at the grocery store. It’s overwhelming the number of food items,” says Sharon Tilbe, a certified diabetes coordinator with Lee Memorial Health System.

To help patients with diabetes make good choices, Lee Heal Solutions offers medical nutrition therapy. It consists of one-on-one time with a dietician.

“We teach a little bit of carbohydrate counting whether its real specific carbohydrate counting or generalities of carbohydrate counting. Making sure that people get adequate whole grains, adequate fruit and dairy in their diet, but not too much to raise their blood sugar,” says Sharon.

Common everyday foods, even ones we don’t suspect, can cause a jump in blood sugar.

“Fruit as an example, would be considered a carbohydrate or a high carbohydrate food in that it has a lot of natural sugar. Milk we don’t think of milk as being a sugar food but of course milk has lactose, which will of course turn into blood glucose. Grains, most people understand that if we eat too much pasta too much rice the blood sugar goes up,” says Sharon.

All things in moderation is a good rule of thumb, a controlling diet can make an absolute difference in managing diabetes.

“Just before you came I took my blood sugar and it was 92, so below 100 is average for regular people,” says George Pickel.

George worked with a diabetes educator to turn his diet around and with it the course of his disease.

“Most people, diets are started and when the goal is achieved people stop the diet. They better realize that eating is a lifelong process,” says George.

It’s a healthy perspective, looking at diabetes as a lifelong journey.

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What is Type 2 Diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which your body has high blood sugar.

How does your blood sugar rise?
If you have insulin resistance, your insulin cannot unlock the cells to let glucose in, because the locks called the receptors are abnormal or missing. As a result, glucose is locked out up of your cells. Consequently, the amount of glucose builds up in the blood stream in a condition called hyperglycaemia.

How do we lose the ability to create insulin?
To compensate for hyperglycaemia, your pancreas produces more and more insulin. Your over worked beta cells try to keep up with the demand but gradually lose their capability to produce enough insulin. If you don’t receive treatment for hyperglycaemia, it can result in diabetic ketoacidosis as there will be a shortage of insulin in the body. Over time, chronic poorly controlled Type 2 diabetes can cause degenerative tissue damage resulting in long-term complications such as atherosclerosis, blindness, neuropathy, heart attack and renal failure. Diabetes and heart disease have a high rate of correlation. Watch the video to know more about the causes, symptoms, diabetes attack and high blood sugar treatment.

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