Diabetes symptoms: The ‘warning sign’ on the ears you could have pre-diabetes

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Diabetes is a condition that causes the blood sugar level in an individual’s blood to become too high. There are two types of diabetes, Type 1, and Type 2. Type 1, says the NHS, is “where the body’s immune system attack and destroys the cells that produce insulin”. In contrast Type 2 is “where the body does not produce enough insulin, or the body’s cells do not react to insulin.”

Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes, making up around 90 percent of those diagnosed.

Diabetes, like every condition, has a number of signs and symptoms that can indicate if someone has the condition.

However, the body can also send out signals when a person is pre-diabetic.

If someone is pre-diabetic, it means that their blood sugar levels are high, but not high enough to class the person as having diabetes.

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One of the symptoms of prediabetes is a rash.

A "warning sign" of prediabetes is a rash that can appear in a number of places on the body, from the legs to the ears.

Depending on the cause will depend what the rash looks like and where it is.

There are five types of rash that occur in those with diabetes:• Bullosis diabeticorum• Diabetes dermopathy• Digital sclerosis• Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum• Diabetes Foot Syndrome.

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Bullosis diabeticorum are, say the Cleveland Clinic “Painless blisters [that] may form on the backs of hands and feet and on the legs and forearms”.

This is a condition that often affects people with diabetic neuropathy, a condition where the nerves are damaged as a result of diabetes.

Diabetes dermopathy is where light-brown patches of scaly skin appear on the shins.

These can often look like age spots and don’t require treatment.



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