Ms. Apinya Nice Saeher, a registered nurse from Thailand said that there are many factors that cause these illness and that people need to really take care of themselves before any signs or symptoms appeared. Because it could indicate that they are in serious situation and really need medical attention.
Diabetes are either cause by our diets or genetic heredity. But genetic heredity is rare however, lifestyle and eating habits can cause this disease if we are overweight, eating processed food, consuming salty foods, drinking sugary drinks. So insulin in our body can not function properly and does not use sugar in our body, we will have diabetes. Therefore medical treatment to manage this chronic disease is needed.
When some one has diabetes, Ms. Nai Her said that they will experienced frequent urination during the night time, some time if men urinate at the bush their urine will attract ants and insects, they feel very appetite and always want to eat something but the more the eat the more they become thinner, they will have high blood pressure, heart disease and high cholesterol as complication as well.
Ms Her said that due to the hardening of the blood vessels and the cholesterol that attached to it, we will have hypertension or high blood pressure because it will make our blood thick and it will make our heart work harder, as well as we may have stroke due to the blockage of the blood vessel in our brains or our heart muscle does not have enough blood supply and this will lead to coronary heart attack.
When it comes to high blood pressure, there will be pain or tense on the shoulders, back of the head and feel dizzy. But when some one is going to have a stroke they will experience signs and symptoms like having trouble walking, speaking and understanding, as well as paralysis or numbness of the face, arm or leg. Or people may
experience some of the symptoms as following:
"Muscular: difficulty walking, paralysis with weak muscles, problems with coordination, stiff muscles, overactive reflexes, or paralysis of one side of the body
Whole body: balance disorder, fatigue, light-headedness, or vertigo
Visual: blurred vision, double vision, sudden visual loss, or temporary loss of vision in one eye
Speech: difficulty speaking, slurred speech, or speech loss
Sensory: pins and needles or reduced sensation of touch
Facial: muscle weakness or numbness
Limbs: numbness or weakness
Also common: difficulty swallowing, headache, inability to understand, mental confusion, or rapid involuntary eye movement." (https://strokefoundation.org.au/about-stroke/stroke-symptoms). And the Face, Arms, Speech, Time -FAST is a method for people to notice if they will experience stroke so it is time to call for ambulance of medical assistance.
If someone experience signs or symptoms of of dizziness, chest pain, they might already contracted this disease. So the best way to prevent is to eat health foods, exercise, drink enough water, reduce processed foods, salty foods and sugary foods.
In terms of salty food, it will impact our kidney to remove water out of our body instead water is retain in our blood vessels and cause blood pressure.
One thing that Ms. Nai Her would like to inform community is that we should take care of our nutrition intake. She does not want to recommend medication but to change their lifestyle and seek treatment.
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