Tag: Elevated Blood Glucose

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Ketoacidosis, a critical acute complication of diabetes

Ketoacidosis is a serious acute complication of diabetes, which can lead to coma and even death. When cells in the body lack sufficient glucose to supply energy, the body will supply energy by burning fat, and ketone body is the metabolite of fat burning. In diabetic patients, the body is not sensitive to insulin or lacks insulin, which prevents glucose from entering cells to supply energy with the help of insulin. Although the blood sugar of patients is very high, the cells are still in a state of energy shortage. The body has to burn fat to supply energy, while at the same time, it produces a large number of ketones. When a large number of ketones accumulate in the Read More …

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How to preserve insulin? How do you take it on a trip?

If your family has diabetes, or if you are a diabetes, do you care enough about the correct use of insulin? Now let’s accept the challenge. Please listen to the question: The insulin pen equipped with insulin refill should be kept after opening: Do you think it is easy to answer before you see the question? Do you take it for granted that you can put it in the refrigerator? But how many degrees should it be? Is there any difference before and after opening? How? 1. Before opening: As require in that instructions, Unopened insulin is generally required to be kept in refrigerators at 2 ℃ ~ 8 ℃, Until the expiry date, And placed away from the freezer Read More …

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How does diabetes hurt the kidney?

Kidney is an extremely important organ of human body. There are millions of small blood vessels with filtering function in the kidney, which are jointly responsible for removing metabolic wastes from human blood. Diabetes can damage the function of this filtration system, resulting in renal insufficiency. The damaged kidney can no longer effectively filter out metabolic wastes in blood, eventually leading to kidney disease. How does diabetes cause nephropathy? When we eat and digest protein foods, we will produce a large amount of metabolic waste. In the kidney, a large number of capillaries and small holes in the wall of blood vessels are natural filters, which can effectively filter out metabolic waste and retain beneficial components in blood. As blood Read More …

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Home Taste Oat: The Staple Food for Controlling Blood Glucose, Reducing Blood Lipid, Relieving Constipation and Losing Weight

< < Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2016) > > >, it is emphasized that daily food should be diversified, especially the types of staple food should pay attention to all kinds of whole grains and miscellaneous beans, and it is best to eat 50 ~ 150g per day. Among all kinds of whole grains, oats are the most recommended. Oats are full of treasures and have many nutritional benefits. 1. Prevention and treatment of constipation There is less than 1 gram of dietary fiber in 100 grams of rice, while oats are especially rich in dietary fiber, reaching 10.6 g/100g. If one or two to three ounces of oats replace ordinary rice in the staple food of three meals Read More …

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Precautions for Diabetes Patients in Autumn

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 Read More …

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The dried fruit is very sweet and cannot be eaten by people with high blood sugar? This is not the truth.

I want to control blood sugar, staple food can’t eat, fruit can’t eat, dried fruit can’t eat… When it comes to controlling blood sugar, people will automatically alert to sweet foods with high sugar content and issue [red card warning]. It is true that various carbohydrates in food can cause blood sugar to rise and promote insulin secretion. However, it is not wise to refuse carbohydrates. You need to learn to choose various sugary foods correctly. Staple food can be eaten, fruits can be eaten, even sweet dried fruits can be eaten. High sugar does not necessarily lead to high blood sugar reaction. After the fruit is dried and dehydrated, the sugar content is not low. The carbohydrate content of Read More …

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The blood sugar control is not good, perhaps these are the reasons.

Poor blood sugar control should be the most worrying thing for sugar lovers. The human body is a precise instrument, and there are many factors that affect blood sugar. Today, Dr. Clove summarized the 8 most common reasons for everyone. Let’s compare them quickly. 1. Inappropriate drug selection Some sugar lovers make it convenient to buy hypoglycemic drugs in pharmacies, which is wrong. The choice of hypoglycemic drugs needs to be judged by professional doctors in combination with many factors such as sugar friends’ disease status, body shape, age, presence or absence of other diseases, etc. It is not decided in a few words after everyone goes to a pharmacy to ask the shopping guide. Buying hypoglycemic drugs by oneself Read More …

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Remember 5 words, eat the right vegetables, stabilize blood sugar

Diabetes doctors often tell everyone that in order to stabilize blood sugar, they should eat more vegetables and at least 500 grams a day. However, there are so many varieties of vegetables, how should we choose them? In fact, it is very simple. It is enough to remember 5 words: [deep root and thick soybean]. Root The root word reminds everyone to pay special attention to root vegetables. Some root vegetables, such as potatoes, taro, yam, lotus root slices, etc., have higher starch content and higher energy than ordinary vegetables. In the diet of sugar lovers, these vegetables are often used to replace staple food. When eating these vegetables, some staple food foods, such as rice, noodles, steamed bread, etc., Read More …

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Eat oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar like this to stabilize blood sugar and prevent complications!

Nutrition doctors will recommend sugar lovers to cook their own meals. The first reason is that the amount of food can be grasped. The second reason is that cooking by oneself can use seasonings rationally to help sugar lovers better control blood sugar, blood lipid and blood pressure, which is also good for preventing diabetic complications. So, does what pay attention to seasoning for sugar lovers? Come and have a look with Dr. Clove. Oil Due to the high energy produced by oil, eating too much is not conducive to sugar lovers to control the total energy. In addition, excessive oil intake increases the risk of obesity and atherosclerosis, which may induce cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and myocardial infarction. Read More …

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Watch out! Diabetic lower limb arteriopathy

Have you ever had such experiences: As I was walking along the road, my leg suddenly began to ache. I had to rest before I could continue to walk. If I walked again, I began to ache again. In this way, only stop-and-go, like lame intermittent attacks, very uncomfortable. In fact, this is the lower limb artery in [red light], tell everyone, the lower limb artery has pathological changes. Diabetic lower limb arterial disease, what is it? Diabetic lower limb arteriopathy is a very common but easily neglected diabetic complication. Diabetic lower limb arterial disease mainly refers to lower limb atherosclerosis, which is simply the lower limb artery [traffic jam]. As we all know, the arteries in our bodies are Read More …