Diabetes And Life

Importance of Blood Glucose Control

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Controlling your blood glucose level is a very important part of managing diabetes. Regularly testing your blood glucose helps measure the effectiveness of your meal plan, physical activity and medications.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is an important & integral component of modern therapy for diabetes mellitus. SMBG has been recommended for people with diabetes in order to achieve a target level of glycemic control and thus achieve their HbA1c target. The goal of SMBG is to achieve target HbA1c by regularly monitoring blood glucose levels at different time intervals so as to check short term glycemic changes and enable maintenance of a more constant glucose level.

High Blood Sugar is dangerous for health

High blood-sugar symptoms in a person.

Here are the diabetes symptoms you should never ignore.

1. being very thirsty
2. urinating a lot
3. feeling very hungry
4. feeling very tired
5. losing weight without trying
6. having sores that are slow to heal
7. having dry, itchy skin
8. losing feeling in or having tingling in the hands or feet
9. having blurry vision
10. having more infections than usual

High blood sugar adversely affects the heart, the kidneys, the pancreas, the digestive system and the brain.

High Blood-Sugar affects our health

Uncontrollable blood sugar leads to too much urinating and over discussed symptoms , overworking the kidneys. Too much sugar in the bloodstream damages the heart tissue. The pancreas works too hard to secrete enough insulin to compensate for the high sugar amount.

Low Blood Sugar Symptoms

Low blood sugar makes a person appear drowsy or sleepy means hypoglycemia.

Hypoglycemia means serum glucose level (the amount of sugar or glucose in your blood) below 70 mg/dL. read more Hypoglycemia

If the sugar level drops too low, in the example of starvation, and the person doesn’t have enough insulin, the person can experience ketoacidosis.

Low blood sugar is even more dangerous than high blood sugar because it can lead to diabetic shock, coma and/or death.

Eat healthy and Sensibly

This is why it is important to eat sensibly, avoiding high amount of sugar and carbohydrates; exercise daily; and keep blood sugar levels under control.

By self-monitoring your blood glucose one can measure how the body handles different types of food, exercise, medication, stress and illness. Your blood glucose result may prompt you to eat a snack, take more insulin or go for a walk. Self-monitoring can also alert you to a blood glucose level that is too high or too low, which requires special treatment.

¹ Joslin Diabetes Center. Blood glucose monitoring: your tool for diabetes control. Available at:http://www.joslin.org/managing_your_diabetes_650.asp . Accessed January 10, 2010.

²American Diabetes Association. A1C test, Available http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-care/blood-glucose-control/a1c/Accessed May 06, 2010

Blood sugar levels vary during the day night. Blood sugar levels chnages  due to a number of factors such as those listed below:

1. Eating food means Eating habits.

When we eat, food  break down, glucose is released into the bloodstream ready to be absorbed by cells. Due to any reasons if   glucose in the bloodstream increase is called  higher blood sugar level.

2. Exercise or Physical activity.

We must do exercise and perform physical activity to abosorbs glucose generated due to food we consumes.  Exercise provides many benefits to our body, including burning excess sugar and reducing insulin resistance (by making cells more receptive to insulin, so rather than requiring more insulin to facilitate glucose uptake, the insulin you already have becomes a bit more effective).

However the effect on blood sugar depends on the type of exercise, the duration of exercise, glucose and insulin levels before you start exercising.

3. Remain fit think fit means physiology.

If you have a greater muscle to fat ratio, you will burn energy at a faster rate and therefore be more effective at reducing your blood glucose level.

4. Emotions and stress.

Stress is cause of blood sugar increase. So take good sleep and d meditation and laugh as much as you want and leave healthy live.Means live with diabetes without any complication.

5. Sleeping.

As we all know till today we are not able to rach any conclusion of what is the reasons behind diabetes.  Some research also suggests that not getting enough sleep causes the liver to produce/release more glucose, hence increasing your blood sugar levels.

So take good sleep it really reduce stress and blood sugar.

6. Medications.

Obviously, the medication you take regulates your blood sugar level and therefore your readings during the day, depending on when you took the medication.

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