Everyone will want to trim fat. Various methods are used to be slim. Starting from the diet, exercise or taking certain medications. There are even willing to take more courageous and more expensive, such as liposuction.
Here we are not talking about people who become thinner because of the actions mentioned above, but talking about people with a drastic weight loss without any intervention.
When the weight began to fall, usually people will feel happy. But gradually growing thinner and not be pretty but instead like a sick person. Yes, if this condition, there is the possibility of disease in the body.
There are several diseases that need to be aware if more and more weight down, namely:
(1) Diabetes mellitus (DM)
Disease or diabetes mellitus have some characteristics such as thirst-thirst, often feel hungry, frequent urination and other symptoms that often accompany the drastic weight loss. In diabetes, due to hormonal disorders, the sugars from the diet was not optimal entry into cells but accumulates in the blood. So to the needs of metabolism, body fat is broken down from the reserve. This makes a diabetic more and more thin. Therefore, to check blood sugar.
(2) Hyperthyroidism
Hyperthyroidism is a disease of the thyroid gland (thyroid gland) is characterized by elevated thyroid hormone produced. This hormone functions to the body's metabolic processes. Excess of this hormone cause hyperactive state of various organs, characterized by palpitations, tremors, sweating a lot, insomnia, people tend to always move can not be silent. Very high metabolism that it would need a lot of energy. In addition, the process of absorption of nutrients is also affected, because the intestine can not work properly, often arise diarrhea. Because the nutrients to the body's metabolic processes are not enough of the food, the fat is taken from existing reserves in the body, so that more and more thin. Even his eyes look like protruding. If there are symptoms like those above, will usually be advisable to check the thyroid hormone.
(3) Tuberculosis (TB) pulmonary
Pulmonary TB is a chronic infectious disease of high incidence rates in Indonesia. In adults, the main symptoms are usually cough, accompanied by a decreased appetite so that the body increasingly thin. But there are some people did not complain of cough (possibly due to cough a little, and mistaken for the common cold) weight on the downside is the main complaint came for treatment.
Instead of TB in children, instead of weight badanlah main symptoms are most common, symptoms of cough sometimes not dominant. Therefore people with significant weight loss chest X-ray examination.
(4) Malignancy
Malignant disease (cancer) often initially asymptomatic. Even if there are symptoms, usually not typical. If the cancer has caused obvious symptoms, such as sightings of the neck swelling, a palpable mass in the abdomen, there was a lump in the breast, and so on, it usually has an advanced stage. In cancer, weight loss generally occurs. Moreover, if the cancer of the gastrointestinal tract. This is because we eat food substances, used for the metabolism of cancer cells so that the process becomes very rapid cell division. If we had to get rid of the causes of weight loss due to various causes that have been described above, we should focus more on checking whether there is a process of malignancy in the body.
Those are some diseases that we must be cautious when weight dropped dramatically.