Paralyzed from drinking silly, this is the story of diabetics and the doctor’s explanation

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – A story about drinking paralysis. bubble or too silly to get the attention of citizens on Twitter.

In his thread, R (20) said that in one day he used to consume two glasses of boba three to four days a week.

This habit he has been doing since December 2019 and continues. While consuming silly, he felt that there was nothing strange about him.

Little by little, R began to feel something strange in his body. At first, she felt numbness in her legs.

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For six days after that, the numbness in her legs did not go away. Until finally, she felt that her leg was temporarily paralyzed. R then decided to have a doctor review her condition in March 2020.

“The doctor said this is mostly sugar, and it is appropriate for him to consume silly often. share Experiment with binge drinking due to the photo context. base The refrigerator contains a lot of silly, “said R to Kompas.com, Monday (9/28/2020).

However, is it true that excessive consumption of boba can lead to paralysis of diabetes?

Quoted by Kompas Sains, consultant specialist in internal medicine for endocrine, metabolic and diabetic diabetes, Dr. Wismandari Wisnu SpPD-KEMP said that someone who consumes foods or beverages that contain fat and sugar is prone to diabetes.

Even so, it takes time for increased blood sugar to turn into prediabetes and eventually diabetes.

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The danger is that when a person already has diabetes, they may not experience symptoms. This generally prevents a person from seeing a doctor right away.

According to Wismandari, patients often attend precisely because of diabetes complications, such as heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, blindness, leg wounds that are difficult to heal, tingling or numbness, impotence and vaginal discharge.

They can also go to the doctor for complaints of infection. However, when they checked him, his blood sugar levels were already high.

According to Wismandari, the story of paralysis that R shared was not something that happened all of a sudden.

Your blood sugar levels have probably been rising for some time without realizing it because you don’t have any symptoms.

“And it often happens (blood sugar rises without any physical symptoms),” Wismandari said.

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Once blood sugar rises, complications begin to occur.

Wismandari said that one of the complications that occurs is nerve complications, which can be peripheral nerves in the form of tingling or complications in the form of stroke that can cause paralysis.

Then numbness or pain that often occurs in the balls of the feet or hands. Wismandari said leg pain often occurs due to damage to peripheral nerves and blood flow.

This causes wounds that are difficult to heal and can be amputated.