The white dew has passed, the summer heat is gradually receding, and the temperature is gradually dropping. Autumn in the real sense has come to us.
For diabetics, do you need to pay attention to what in autumn? Let Dr. Clove tell you about the precautions for diabetics in autumn.
It is not advisable to stick fat in autumn.
In autumn, people often have the saying of “fattening up in autumn”. However, for diabetics, they must not follow the crowd and relax their diet control and exercise therapy.
Sugar lovers should not blindly supplement, but should insist on controlling the total energy and balancing nutrition.
It is suggested to increase the proportion of coarse cereals and coarse grains in staple food, ensure more than one kilogram of vegetables every day, and choose meat with less fat, such as lean meat, peeled chicken, fish, etc.
In addition, the weather slowly gets cooler in autumn, and people’s outdoor activities decrease, but sugar lovers should stick to moderate activities to ensure the stability of blood sugar.
It is recommended to choose light and moderate intensity sports, such as walking, Taijiquan, jogging, cycling, etc. Ensure 30 minutes every day and more than 150 minutes a week. Pay attention to preparatory activities before and after exercise, and take a few candy bars with you to prevent hypoglycemia.
Don’t scratch your skin when you feel unwell.
Some sugar lovers often feel itchy because of the damage of hyperglycemia to nerves and blood vessels. In addition, in autumn, the weather is getting drier and drier, and skin pruritus may be further aggravated.
At this time, don’t scratch the skin, because diabetic patients have weak anti-infection ability, scratching the skin is easy to cause infection.
In case of skin pruritus and discomfort, we can do both.
1. The root cause
Fundamentally speaking, sugar lovers should cooperate with doctors to control blood sugar.
2. Treating symptoms
Use emollient lotion: After taking a bath, you can apply some emollient lotion appropriately, but don’t let too much emulsion remain in toe seams and groins to prevent too much emulsion from infiltrating the skin and damaging the stratum corneum of the skin.
Environmental humidification: As autumn is getting drier and drier, humidifiers can be used to increase humidity in the home and make the skin more comfortable.
Keep warm in the morning and evening and don’t be greedy for cold.
The temperature difference between day and night increases in autumn. Sugar lovers should pay attention to cold protection and warmth preservation, increase or decrease clothes in time to prevent colds.
Because sugar friends anti-infection ability is low, especially older sugar friends, once caught a cold, it is easy to induce lung infection, making blood sugar rise sharply. At the same time, some cold medicine can also cause blood sugar to rise, sugar friends need to use cold medicine under the guidance of doctors.
If you catch a cold, you need to measure your blood sugar frequently, especially for sugar lovers who take insulin, so that you can find out the fluctuation of blood sugar in time and contact your doctor for treatment as soon as possible.
In addition, many sugar lovers with hypertension and heart disease should be especially careful. As the weather gets cooler and peripheral blood vessels contract, blood pressure may rise, which is easy to induce cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and stroke.
Sugar friends should pay attention to the monitoring of blood pressure and control the blood pressure within the target range set by doctors in combination with their own illness. Generally speaking, blood pressure should not exceed 140/90 mmHg.
Be careful when soaking your feet comfortably.
The temperature gradually drops in autumn, and it has been a busy day. It is a great enjoyment for many people to soak their feet in hot water before going to bed at night to relieve fatigue and warm up.
However, for sugar lovers, special attention should be paid to soaking feet in hot water.
Many sugar friends, due to perennial hyperglycemia, may have foot neuropathy, but not sensitive to pain and temperature. If you soak your feet with hot water, the patient often does not feel scalded and keeps adding hot water, often he has been severely scalded and is unaware of it.
In addition, other sugar friends have arterial occlusion and suffer from ischemic diabetic foot. Soaking feet with high temperature and hot water can aggravate tissue ischemia and worsen the disease.
If diabetic foot patients want to soak their feet, they need to ask their families or use thermometers to test the water temperature. The water temperature should not be too hot. It is better to control the water temperature at about 37 ℃.
After soaking your feet, remember to dry your feet with a soft dry towel, especially in the toe seams. Carefully check your foot skin and deal with any wounds found in time.
Emotional Peace Stabilizes Blood Glucose
Autumn often gives people a bleak feeling. Many sugar lovers are sick and feel depressed when they see autumn scenery with withered flowers and trees.
But don’t forget, emotional instability can often lead to blood sugar fluctuations.
Therefore, at this time, we should pay attention to adjusting our mood. For example, we can take advantage of the sunny weather to go out for a walk with our family, or we can cultivate some personal hobbies, play chess and plant flowers, so as to dispel the bad emotions in our hearts in time, which is more conducive to the control of the disease.