Changes in Nervous Tissue

Very often, in patients with diabetes mellitus, with a poorly controlled disease, nerve cells begin to suffer.

Nerves are wires that run through the human body. Nerve impulses are constantly transmitted through them - signals that tell the brain what is happening in various parts of the body, as well as commands from the brain center to the periphery, “recommending doing” this or that.

Imagine what could happen, for example, to a household electrical appliance if the wiring sparks or a break occurs. The device will begin to act up or stop working altogether. Something similar happens in the body of a diabetic patient. Nerve cells affected by diabetes are less able to conduct nerve impulses. The organs and tissues that did not receive them suffer from this.

The nerve endings in the extremities are most often affected. They feel pain, and their hands and feet are constantly cold. Soon the pain is replaced by a feeling of numbness, frozenness of the limbs, sometimes so pronounced that the patient does not feel anything and, accordingly, does not immediately notice the ulcers that have formed on the feet.

In diabetes, the innervation of any organ can be disrupted, which leads to disruption of its function. Damage to nerve tissue can cause impotence, which is difficult to treat, even if blood sugar levels can be normalized.

But with diabetes, as in life in general, a lot depends on ourselves. Who else but us should think and take care of our own health? Anyone can do this. The main condition for the normal functioning of the body of a person with diabetes is constant monitoring of blood sugar levels.