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Managing diabetes is all about balance. People with diabetes have to keep balance, food, medication and exercise blood glucose in a valid range because their bodies can no longer do it for them. Regular self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) gives you a handle on, where their blood sugar right at the moment are that they are testing. Some food and activities can affect blood sugar, and it's good to know which situations put blood sugar outside the acceptable range.

Good control keeps complications Bay:

Consistently high blood sugar leads to complications of the eyes, kidneys and the extremities such as hands and feet. Areas of the body, they have very small blood vessels and nerves, damaged by the excess sugar, which circulates in the blood. The longer the blood sugar is high, the serious damage. This damage is called neuropathy. Tight control of blood glucose, with SMBG will prevent, delay or reduce the risk of diabetes complications.

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Keeping tabs on your blood sugar also helps you to see how effective is your medication or insulin to control your blood sugar levels. If your medication to keep your blood sugar in the right pane is not, it needs to be adjusted. You and your doctor can frequent tests the right decisions for cans and drugs.

Prevent Glycemic life-threatening emergencies:

Hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) may occur with stress or other medications, the blood sugar. Testing can better guard on blood sugar to keep, so that you can take the appropriate measures before it is too high. Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) occurs when your blood sugar dip to low levels. Test before, during or after your workout to a dangerous drop in blood sugar to avoid. If you drink alcohol, you should test often, because alcohol can lower blood sugar levels.

There is an increased risk of heart disease for people with diabetes diagnosed. Inflammation, just like the inflammation, the blood vessels of the eyes, kidneys and feet attacks attacks also the blood vessels of the heart. It comes slowly in the course of the time when the blood sugar is consistently high. To save your heart, you keep your blood sugar in the control to the best of your ability. Frequent SMBG is the best tool for the job.

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Watch high blood sugar

Have you ever high morning blood glucose levels? Occasionally you can wake up in the morning and check your blood sugar before breakfast, and your Blutzucker values are high. Higher than usual. What is going on? It could be several causes.

Firstly, it is important to know that the most likely cause of high morning glucose insufficient nighttime insulin doses. In particular, can counter regulatory hormones in the early hours of morning Glucoses strengthened more difficult to handle and require higher nightly doses or doses that are closer to bedtime taken.

The problem may be less frequently due to the so-called lies the Somogyi effect, Hyperglycemia caused by relaxation after an episode of hypoglycemia, while you sleep. This can happen to people who take long-acting insulins, and it can also happen if you not snack before bed eating. The blood sugar drops and your body releases hormones, counteract the drop. The result? Waking up with a higher blood sugar level than you want to see.

Or it could be from the "Dawn phenomenon", which happens to put in the night, published as hormones and the liver, raise glucose. If there is not enough insulin in the body combat, rise then blood glucose levels, during the night, what a high reading in the morning.

The only way to know exactly? Wake up at some point between 2 and 03 for more nights in a row, and check your blood sugar. If you are low at this time, it could be the Somogyi effect. If you're normal or high, may the dawn phenomenon of the Schuldige.Stellen you sure a snack before bed to have composed more protein than carbohydrates.Let your doctor know what is happening. He or she can change your medication or insulin doses, or the time, when you should receive insulin.In the evening, exercise can help keep blood sugar in a better choice tomorrow.Breakfast, even if your blood sugar is high. Some eat the dawn phenomenon process will actually shut down and leave your blood sugar to normal.

Sources:

"The dawn effect." DOC news. July 1, 2006 volume 3 number 7 p. 5 American Diabetes Association. November 24, 2007.

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