Tag: Hypoglycemia

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How many times a day do you need to check your blood sugar if you have diabetes?

Once diagnosed with diabetes, monitoring blood sugar is essential. Some patients do not know how many times a day to check blood sugar, and whether there is a difference between fasting and postprandial blood sugar in what. Let’s give you a detailed introduction to several indicators for monitoring blood sugar and some problems that need attention. Glucose monitoring at home in how? Glucose meter is a standard configuration and necessary tool for diabetics. In addition to doing examinations in hospitals, Diabetes patients need to monitor their blood sugar level at home through a rapid blood glucose meter. In the outpatient department, There are still a few patients who never monitor their blood sugar, Always by feeling. Today, my head is Read More …

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Diabetes patients have so much to pay attention to when going out! Did you miss anything?

When you are preparing for vacation and travel, you should prepare for diabetes care in advance. Saying goodbye to your daily routine is originally one of the pleasures of vacation and travel. However, many [sugar lovers] are very helpless, because extra daily care is very important during travel. Eating out while traveling, changes in physical exercise, and jet lag will all affect your effect of controlling blood sugar. Do you want to go out for a spiritual baptism or relieve the pressure? Before starting, read the following points carefully so as to take better care of yourself during the journey. Don’t forget to bring your medicine! Bring two diabetes care necessities, To prevent travel delays and drug cuts. All syringes Read More …

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Diabetes patients should not only guard against hyperglycemia, but also guard against hypoglycemia.

When the blood sugar is as low as 2.8-3.8 mmol/L, patients may feel various discomfort. For patients with high blood sugar on weekdays, symptoms may occur as soon as the blood sugar is lower than 5.5 mmol/L. Too strong? Abnormal decrease of blood glucose level Patients who use oral hypoglycemic drugs or insulin injection, if the drug effect is too strong, will cause abnormal fluctuations in blood sugar, leading to hypoglycemia. The efficacy of drugs is closely related to diet, exercise and physical condition. As always, the dosage may be due to low diet, excessive exercise and other factors, suddenly make the blood sugar drop too low. For patients with good blood sugar control, the average blood sugar value is Read More …

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Drink juice [detoxification]? Don’t waste your money

  I have a best friend who highly admires all kinds of unknown [health preserving] methods, because a few years ago I perfectly ended the dysmenorrhea that troubled her for more than ten years with ibuprofen, and she simply regarded me as a [magic doctor]. With what’s novel [health preserving] products, she would first ask me if I was reliable. Recently, she sent me another link, a product called [detoxification juice], saying that colleagues around her were drinking it. It was said that it had the miraculous effect of [detoxification] [weight loss]. It was very exciting, but it was expensive. She asked me if it was worth buying. After reading it, I said: “The current merchants are really wicked. It Read More …

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The blood sugar level is on the high side and does not meet the standard of diabetes?

Friends often ask, doctor, my blood sugar is on the high side, but it seems that I have not reached the standard of diabetes. What should I do? Most of these friends are found during physical examination. During physical examination, the fasting blood glucose level is usually measured. When the fasting blood glucose level is higher than 6.1 mmol/L and lower than 7.0 mmol/L, the doctor will tell you: [Your blood glucose level is too high! ] In fact, this kind of blood sugar level is [critical] diabetes. Will [Critical Type] Change to [Diabetes]? [Critical Type] refers to a state between [healthy person] and [diabetes]. Some people, after learning of their [critical type], are glad that they do not have Read More …

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Top 10 Risks of Poor Control of Blood Glucose

Many people think that controlling blood sugar is only a matter for diabetics. In fact, whether diabetics or not, it is very important to control blood sugar level and avoid large fluctuations in blood sugar. If you eat and drink all the time and let your blood sugar level fluctuate, there will be many adverse effects on your health-these risks will probably exceed your imagination! Hazard 1: Increases the risk of developing diabetes. Measuring the body’s blood sugar level, In addition to the blood glucose level that can reflect the real-time body blood glucose level, There is also glycosylated hemoglobin. Glycosylated hemoglobin can reflect the blood sugar level of the body within 2-3 months. If the postprandial blood sugar level Read More …

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Start the battle to defend blood sugar and let sugar friends move.

As we all know, the [five carriages] of diabetes treatment include diet control, exercise therapy, drug therapy, blood sugar monitoring and diabetes education. In the journey of [blood sugar defense], these treatment measures are indispensable. Among them, exercise therapy is economical and environmentally friendly, and sugar lovers also know the importance of exercise to sugar control. However, not every sugar friend knows how to make a sports plan [private order] according to his own conditions, and even is confused about many details of exercise. In the endocrinology clinic, when I talk about exercise with sugar friends, they always say: “I have to look after children and cook. How can I have time to exercise?” Doctor, I also have coronary heart Read More …

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Hypoglycemia before meals? Could be a sign of diabetes

The onset of type 2 diabetes is slow and the symptoms are hidden. The vast majority of patients do not have typical [hyperglycemia] symptoms such as polyuria, excessive drinking, excessive eating and weight loss. Some patients even see a doctor because of [hypoglycemia] before meals, showing recurrent hypoglycemia symptoms such as hunger, palpitation, shaking hands and cold sweat before meals, which can be relieved after eating. Why do diabetics suffer from preprandial hypoglycemia? Under normal circumstances, After eating, Blood sugar rises, Stimulate insulin secretion. Elevated insulin will quickly shut down the production of endogenous glucose in the liver. At the same time, it also promotes the intake and utilization of glucose by peripheral tissues, so the postprandial blood sugar will Read More …

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Hypoglycemia, what should I do?

Does hypoglycemia show what? Deficiency sweat, dizziness, rapid heartbeat, golden flowers in eyes, trembling, hunger, weakness, numbness of hands and feet, vague speech. Severe hypoglycemia can cause dysphoria, personality changes, disorientation, epileptic seizures and other manifestations, and even coma. The blood sugar level measured is often lower than 3.8 mmol/L, but for diabetics with poor control of long-term hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia may also occur when the blood sugar level is high. What should hypoglycemia do? 1. Quickly supplement blood sugar and chew 1-2 cubes of sugar and fructose, or eat 1-2 pieces of bread and 5-6 pieces of biscuits. If the effect is not ideal, you can eat it again and seek medical treatment in time. 2. If the people around Read More …

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To Solve the Worries of Elderly Diabetes Patients

Often hear sugar friends sigh: Very not easy to retire, want to enjoy the happiness of their children and grandchildren, but I didn’t expect diabetes to find the door. Don’t be melancholy first, you know, you can also enjoy family happiness as usual if you have diabetes. Today, Dr. Clove invited Lao Wang, a senior patient of diabetes, to tell us about how and diabetes [peaceful coexistence]. Lao Wang, who is it? Lao Wang, who has just passed his seventieth birthday, is a retired professor who has suffered from diabetes for 10 years. Lao Wang’s hobbies are playing chess, walking and Taijiquan. He can sing Beijing opera, compose gymnastics and dance, and is warmly welcomed by the community aunts. He Read More …