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You may found you feel thirsty easily with Diabetes. Extreme thirst indeed cause excessive thirst, but how does it cause this symptom?
How does Diabetes cause extreme thirst?
In clinical, excessive thirst is usually accompanied by increased urine output. And also this are weight loss and fatigue. Diabetes is an abnormal medical condition marked by high blood sugar level which is caused by unsuccessful consumption of blood glucose. Normally, blood sugar is consumed to support our daily physical activity with the help of insulin secreted by islet B cells. However, as islet B cell is damaged, no insulin or only a little insulin is secreted, as a result of which, blood sugar can not be used fully. When blood sugar is high, your kidneys can not absorb all of them and instead, the excess sugar is dumped into your urine. You body tries to flush it out of your system by producing more urine. When much more urine is formed by our body. Dehydration will be caused, which can lead to extreme thirsty.
Excessive thirst is usually corporation to the urine output, which means the more urine is formed, the more water that diabetics want to drink.
How to deal with extreme thirst caused by Diabetes?
Since the root cause for extreme thirst in Diabetes is high blood sugar, the most effective method for remitting this symptom is to lower blood sugar. According to studies, the higher the blood sugar level, the severer the thirsty feeling. Therefore, to remit thirst symptom effectively, lowering blood sugar level is essential.
1. Take hypoglycemic agents like metformin or insulin injection
2. Count sugar intake everyday, so as to prevent ingesting too much sugar
3. Take physical exercises, which not only helps to lower blood sugar, but also allow us to maintain a ideal body weight.
4. Treat Diabetes as whole: high blood sugar occurs because of insufficiency of insulin, so as long as Diabetes is treated effectively, blood glucose can be used fully, blood sugar level decreases and also extreme thirst symptom is remitted.
