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Do not think that you will return neurotic for having diabetes, neuropathy means that your nervous system, which transmits messages from your brain to the rest of your body, it begins to be affected by diabetes without your realizing it.

Diabetic neuropathy is a disease of the nervous system caused by diabetes, and you can avoid it.

The nervous system connects the brain to the rest of the body through the nerve fibers that are responsible for transmitting the sensation of body parts to your brain, and then takes care of sending your brain’s response to them. Thanks to these messages can react to pain and extreme temperature, digest food, urinating or have an erection.

If you get to suffer from neuropathy, the speed with which signals are sent through nerve fibers, called nerve conduction velocity, is affected. So are sent more slowly or, in the worst case, never sent. This can lead to when you get hurt and have a small cut and never sit down, or slow reactions when you are burning with an iron. Sometimes it can cause you a tingling, burning or pain in parts of the body.

Believe it or not neuropathy has much to do with diabetes. People who have had diabetes for many years, and have not adequately controlled blood glucose (sugar) in your blood, have problems with your nervous system and develop neuropathy. It is a very common complication, that about half of diabetics have a problem with his nerves.

Not yet known for sure why this happens. Apparently, when glucose levels have been high for a long time, deteriorate the walls of the blood vessels that nourish the nerves and affect some of the nerves called axons, which is the point of connection with other nerves, with the skin, muscles and body organs. This damage can be caused by the stoppage of the blood flow to the nerve or the metabolism (the way it treats) of glucose in your blood produces toxic chemicals that affect the nerves.

When levels of glucose in your blood rises, the rate at which wounds heal more slowly. For example, if you get hurt (you cut) and do not notice it can become infected easily and your body will not be able to cure it without your help. For this reason it is a very serious complication for diabetics.

The biggest risk you run your feet and hands, which is where most easily affect the nerves. Especially the feet, which are one of the most sensitive for diabetics. Diabetic neuropathy allows foot sores or ulcers become infected and are in the worst case may lead you to an amputation.

It is very difficult to recognize when you have this complication, because it has no initial symptoms and your doctor usually identified through several tests.

However, you can suspect that you have the following risk factors:

* You have more than 40 years
* Are you a man
* You had the high sugar in your blood for several years (over 10 or 20 years) and in general, your diabetes has been uncontrolled
* Do you drink alcohol and smoke frequently
* Are you high, it means that you have long nerve fibers that tend to be affected more easily
* Do you drink alcohol and smoke frequently
* You have the level of bad cholesterol (LDL), high

But not everything is bad because diabetic neuropathy is entirely preventable and curable. As soon begin to lower the levels of glucose in your blood, the symptoms of this complication nerve improve, and even neuropathy may disappear.

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