How does high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia) effect the body?
Bux is right. Just to clarify before I go on (you probably already know this), but insulin is secreted by the pancreas, it unlocks sugar so it can be used for energy. It is this lack of insulin that causes Type 1 Diabetes. To elaborate a bit, the thirst is because the high content in your sugar causes thirst to help dilute the sugar in your blood stream. The urination is because all the sugar cannot be used by insulin and are therefore deposited from the body via urination. There is so much sugar that this must happen very often (several times an hour even). The excess sugar in your blood also goes to your eyes, causing the cornea to expand and giving you blurred vision, I didn’t even need my glasses the week after I was diagnosed =D Fatigue is because your sugar cannot be used for energy, so you become lethargic. Weight loss is for a similar reason, because your cells cannot use sugar to burn, so it burns fat. Stupor and coma are when you are so overloaded with sugar that your brain i
