Diabetes mellitus ranks third in the world among causes of morbidity and mortality after cardiovascular and cancer diseases.
Any serious illness it is better to start to treat at an early stage.
Directly, it refers to diabetes mellitus, which is evolving gradually and imperceptibly, may suddenly put a man on the brink of life and death.
Therefore, an important educational information released to the General reader specialized organizations.
German ophthalmological society urged to pay attention to the symptom of diabetes, which will allow not to waste time on eye exams, but immediately consult an endocrinologist.
Diabetics may notice that after lunch, the vision they have – more acute than in the morning when they see things more vague.
Also, when the disease suddenly begin to see the bad even just in carefully selected glasses. These changes in visual acuity associated with fluctuations in the level of glucose in the blood.
Eye exams in this case, it may not give any result, and if the doctor is inexperienced, then to the right specialist it will not send. And the diabetic will continue, not knowing his true diagnosis, to risk his life. In Germany 2 million with diabetes are unaware of their illness.
