Frequent Urination, Increased Appetite, Excessive Thirst, Pins and Needles - Diabetes Mellitus ?

Signs and Symptoms of Diabetes Mellitus



Frequent Urination
  • Urinate / micturition is the process of emptying the bladder when the bladder fills, the body whose role is the kidney, ureter, bladder, and urethra (Dorland, 2002).
  • Excessive secretion of urine is called polyuria (Venes, 2001).
  • Polyuria can be defined as the amount of urine over 125 ml / h or 3 liters / day. Polyuria may be caused by overhydration, osmotic diuresis, diuresis due to drugs, diuresis post-treatment, diabetes insipidus and renal failure due to high secretion (Sabiston, 1995).
  • Polyuria is excessive urine volume, usually above 3 liters / day. The increased volume of urine can be accompanied by symptoms of frequent urination, nocturia (urinating at night), thirst, and polydipsia (Davey, 2005).


Increased Appetite
  • Increased appetite can be called polyphagia (Venes, 2001).
  • Polyphagia defined as increased hunger (Kee, 1996).
  • Polyphagia is greater hunger and arise as a result of loss of calories (Price and Wilson, 2005).


Excessive Thirst
  • Excessive thirst is also called polydipsia (Venes, 2001).
  • Polydipsia is often feel thirsty than usual (Dorland, 2002).
  • Polydipsia is taste very thirsty, 4 to 40 liters of fluid every day, especially in dire need of cold water (Baughman and Hackley, 2000).


Pins and Needles
  • Tingling may be called paresthesias, ie abnormal sensations in the body that are not triggered by external stimuli (Dorland, 2002).
  • Paresthesia is an abnormal feeling, which can manifest as pain such as tingling, numbness, or burning, which indicates disease peripheral sensory nerve fibers. This disorder most often affects the extremities (Burnside, 1995).
  • Paresthesia is felt feelings on certain body surface area that is not generated by the special incentive from the outside. Included in the meaning of paresthesia was feeling cold / local heat, tingling, heaviness / taste tethered something. Paraesthesia and anesthesia is known as negative sensory disturbances (and against, 1994).
  • If paresthesia not heal will cause hypaesthesia (numbness), and will get worse until becoming anesthesia (lost flavor at all) (Mardjono, 1994).

Diabetes
  • Diabetes can be referred to as diabetes mellitus (DM) is a disease in which the patient has too much sugar in the blood (Werner, et al., 2010).
  • Diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by blood glucose levels exceed the normal value, ie when the sugar content equal to or greater than 200 mg / dl and fasting glucose levels above or equal to 126 mg / dl (Misnadiarly, 2006).

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