Video: Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

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Symptoms of type two diabetes include an increase in thirst, an increase in urination, a decrease in weight, tiredness, lethargy and blurred vision. Learn about how type two diabetes can cause sores to heal more slowly with help from a nurse and respiratory care practitioner in this free video on type two diabetes symptoms.

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Type two diabetes, signs and symptoms. Well, you're going to see a lot of the same symptoms as you would in diabetes. Normally type two is that you see it later on in life and you may have had it for a long time and not have known it. Now, some of those symptoms that you're going to see in diabetes are increase in thirst, increase in urination, increase in hunger, decrease in weight, increase in tiredness and lethargy, vision blurred, sole, sores not healing well, increased infections. You may have more infections then you've seen. There's also, in type two, you might be able to see a dark velvety look in skin folds in the creases of the body in the under the arm pits and up around the neck so that's somethin' to look for in diabetes type two is that in addition to the same ten symptoms that could occur prior in early life that in later life, that you'll see these dark velvety skin folds in the creases of the body.

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Type 2 Diabetes Symptoms

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