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Posted: Thu Jan 19th, 2006 04:20 pm |
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| Why is high blood sugar Dangerous? Can it do anything to you?
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Posted: Thu Jan 19th, 2006 04:39 pm |
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The list of horrid things it can do for you is lengthy. First, it delays healing of cuts, scratches or illness. The worse thing it can do is damage the circulation. This leads eventually to amputations, heart disease, heart attacks, strokes, blindness, impotence, fatigue, and many other illnesses. It is NOTHING to mess with. A simple punture wound in a toe can easily lead to amputation of half your leg, eventually.
Fortunately, high blood sugar usually is relatively easy to prevent (except in the case of juvenile diabetes, usually inherited), especially if you start early. See Dr. Weil's suggestions.
Avoid weight gain or lose weight if one is already overweight. Avoid easily digested, low fiber carbohydrates, especially sugar and refined grains. When eating carbs (grains, fruits, sweets...), eat them with harder to digest food such as beans, egg, lean meat or anything with a high fiber content to slow digestion.
Exercise is extremely important. Naturally if you are already ill, check with your doctor first. But walking is usually the best way to start.
Often once the damage is done, it's permanent. But sometimes health can be improved, and at the very least, kept from getting rapidly worse. The earlier one starts to control high sugar, the better.
Persons with high risk factors - a family history of diabetes, problems when younger with low blood sugar (believe it or not), excessive thirst or urination, unexplained weight loss, inability to lose weight, slow healing of wounds, overweight and/or over fifty, exhaustion, or belonging to an ethnic group especially prone to diabetes, should be checked regularly for blood sugar levels. Avoid sugary or fruity drinks or high carb meals for an hour or two before having the blood sugar checked, but otherwise don't do anything out of the ordinary.
Sometimes diet and exercise can control high blood sugar. Especially in older patients, it can sometimes be controlled by a pill. But for many persons, high blood sugar requires frequent blood tests by pr***ing a finger, plus daily (or more often) injections of insulin. Far better that you reduce your risk factors before it gets to that point.
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Bess W.
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