10 High Blood Sugar Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Mera
Symptom #10: Poor Wound Healing and Recurrent Infections
Patients with poor wound healing and recurrent infections often have poorly controlled diabetes where there is constant high blood sugar. Since high blood sugar weakens the patient’s immune system, diabetics are more susceptible to recurrent infections and poor wound healing. The hyperglycemic environment favors immune dysfunction such as humoral immunity, damage to the neutrophil function, and depression of the antioxidant system.
This is also the reason why diabetics are recommended to be immunized with influenza and pneumococcal vaccines to lower the rates of hospital admissions and mortality.
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