“Why do you eat so much?”… Pay attention to ‘these symptoms’ of your parents during Chuseok

If you are meeting your parents for the first time in a long time for Chuseok, you need to pay close attention to their health. It is important to carefully check whether there is any change in their appearance since the last holiday, and whether there is any change in their behavior or personality. Some symptoms may be signs of health problems.

If your food intake has increased significantly, you may suspect diabetes. If your parents, who usually eat little, are eating a lot during this holiday season and visiting the bathroom frequently, they may have diabetes. Polyuria, polyphagia, and polydipsia are typical early symptoms of diabetes.

If you have diabetes, your body produces a lot of urine to excrete the glucose that is in the blood. When the amount of urine output increases, you feel thirsty and drink a lot of water. When glucose is lost through urine, you suddenly feel hungry and eat a lot of food. If you lose weight despite eating well, you may have diabetes. Unlike diabetes that is diagnosed and managed early, diabetes that appears late progresses quickly and increases the risk of complications such as cardiovascular disease.

If your personality changes, suspect dementia = You should not take lightly the changes in the personality of your parents who were usually polite. If they suddenly show signs of anxiety and swear more than usual, it may be dementia. They may get dressed by themselves and ask to go out, even though other family members haven’t washed or prepared, or they may suddenly yell and swear because they are in a bad mood.

These symptoms are often seen in patients with frontotemporal dementia, which is responsible for impulse and rational thinking. Unlike dementia that causes memory loss, if there is a problem with the temporal lobe, it becomes difficult to control impulses and be conscious of moral behavior. It becomes difficult to maintain basic manners and common sense. According to the Korean Dementia Association, the onset age of frontotemporal dementia is around 45 to 65 years old, and it usually occurs in the late 50s.

If your eyes are cloudy even during the day, suspect cataracts = The expression ‘my eyes are dim’ is something my parents often hear as they get older. If you can see well in bright places and feel dim, even though you are fine in dark places, it may be cataracts. Cataracts are a disease in which the lens becomes cloudy and light cannot pass through properly, causing blurred vision and impaired vision. In the early stages, you may feel dim and your vision has deteriorated. You may even experience symptoms of night blindness, where you can see better in dark places than in bright places.

Besides this, when I wake up, I keep If you see yourself grabbing something, it could be osteoarthritis.It can be. Degenerative arthritis occurs when the cartilage protecting the joint is damaged or the bones and ligaments that make up the joint are damaged, causing pain and inflammation. When a load is applied to the inflamed joint, the pain becomes worse, and when sitting down and getting up, you try to distribute the load by holding onto furniture or chairs. Feeling more uncomfortable going down stairs than going up is also a symptom of degenerative arthritis.