El excess blood sugar it is already known what causes the diabetes, but this imbalance can also cause anemia, a debilitating condition due to decrease in red blood cells, its most common origin being bad nutrition.
Excess sugar in the blood not only makes people susceptible to problems like; visual impairments, dental, skin and cardiovascular, but can also lead to anemia, as it can affect the kidneys by diabetic neuropathy, in which the kidneys cannot make enough erythropoietin, a hormone that controls the production of Red blood cells.
One of the main functions of red blood cells is to carry oxygen and if the number of red blood cells is deficient then the amount of oxygen supplied to the body organs it will be less, causing anemia.
Besides that, the diabetes and excess sugar in the blood also affect the nerves that inhibit the production of erythropoietin, but not only that, people with diabetes often suffer malnutrition which in turn causes anemia and people with diabetes type 1 they are also at higher risk of contracting autoimmune diseases and celiac disease and pernicious anemia (deficiency of Vitamin B12) that causes the low blood count.
Medication is also one of the promoting causes of anemia, since the drugs used in the treatment of diabetes and hypertension it can usually also lead to the risk of anemia.
Knowing the symptoms of anemia in patients with diabetes is usually very difficult, being the typical symptoms of anemia to take into account; feeling weak and tired, symptoms that are identical in the case of diabetes, making it difficult to distinguish.
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