Diabetic Diet & Blood Gluecose

I have a question about hyperglycemia and heat?
can the high heat make your sugar go more low and stuff cause since it got hotter I have been having lots of lows

Good question. As you sweat your body is obviously burning energy which could decrease your blood sugar levels because carbs and proteins are being broken down more quickly. When you are getting hot you are obviously doing some sort of activity walking somewhere etc. which leads to the body breaking down these compounds more rapidly.

I can see why hyperglycemia would be a problem, but hypoglycemia doesn’t make sense unless they were purposefully avoiding sugar, and if they were doing that, then they probably also check their blood sugar. If they check their blood sugar, then they would realize that it was low, and eat something sugary before it became a problem, or am I missing something?

as a diabetic you manually inject insulin or take oral medication to lower your blood sugar. If too much is taken it will lead to hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemia isn’t "naturally" occurring in diabetics but happens when too much medication is taken or meals are skipped. Its kinda an operator error.

Also alcohol can cause hypoglycemia in diabetics because it blocks the livers ability to produce glycogon (stored sugar). Combine that with insulin in the system and you can have hypos.

I am 30 weeks pregnant and I just found out I have gestational diabetes. Ohio Caresource will pay for the Blood Glucose meter and all supplies. However, I was wondering what type of meter they will pay for. Does anyone know? This is my first time using a glucose meter and I have to check my blood 4 times a day. I am looking for the least painful meter. - thanks.

Who cares what kind of meter they will pay for? Really, that should be the last thing you are even worried about right now. Having a normal baby born alive and well would be at the top of my list personally —

It’s not the meter that means painful or not painful honey, it’s the clicker thing that makes the blood come off your fingers that determines that. Get yourself an adjustable clicker that you can dial how hard the sticker will hit your fingers. You can put it on the lower settings and do fine. It takes very little blood to tell. I found mine at Walgreens. It was almost $30 but worth every penny.

When pregnant with my daughter I tested 8 times a day, kept a log I gave to the doctor weekly, and took four shots of hormones a day. All worth it, the child was perfect in every way. After delivery the diabetes left completely; however it was back two years later and now I live successfully as a diabetic.

Best of luck to you.

I heard on a triva T.V. program that in 2007 in Hong Kong. A new Blood Glucose monitor was put on the market that did not require a blood sample. No more sticking yourself. If true I would think it would be heavily advertised, even if it was not approved for use in the USA, but I have been unable to find any information.

New devices for people with diabetes may make their lives a little easier.

Researchers say using light beams to measure blood sugar through the skin will mean needing finger pricks only for calibration.

diabetes means your body has trouble controlling the amount of sugar in your blood. The key to diabetes treatment is blood sugar control.

That’s why people with diabetes — particularly those who need insulin — have to check their blood sugar levels several times during the day. This means getting a drop of blood by pricking a finger.

The discomfort and inconvenience of finger pricking is one reason people with diabetes don’t check their blood sugar as often as they should.

Moreover, continuous blood sugar monitoring ideally would be better than checking blood sugar only at intervals. And such monitors could be hooked up to insulin pumps to ensure people get insulin when they need it, 24 hours a day. But current devices use a thin needle inserted beneath the skin.

Several companies are competing to bring patients blood sugar monitors that all but eliminate blood letting. One is the GlucoLight Corp. Another is OrSense Ltd. Both reported progress at the American Diabetes Association’s 67th Annual Scientific Sessions, held June 22-26 in Chicago.

The two companies’ devices are very different. The OrSense device uses a finger cuff that periodically restricts blood flow — much like a blood pressure test — and then uses a sensor to detect blood-specific signals from infrared light transmitted through the finger.

A bulky version is already approved for sale in Europe. And a new model would strap to the wrist like a large watch, with a small wire connecting it to a ring on the index finger.

The GlucoLight uses a sensor to scan the skin using infrared light. The sensor is attached to a monitor that, in the current version, is too big to carry around. It’s currently being tested in intensive care wards, where constant blood sugar monitoring is essential for many patients. A much smaller, wearable device is in the works but still years away.

Both devices still need blood for calibration — once when first connected, and then at regular intervals. The OrSense device can go about 12 hours without calibration, Gideon Fostick, OrSense chief operating officer, tells WebMD.

"Our goal is to extend this duration," Fostick says. "Right now, it can cover a day or a night."

The GlucoLight, once calibrated, is good for four days, according to the company’s presentation.

chicken, deserts, salads…no fish.

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I learned at my last doctors visit that I am pre-diabetic. So, a change in diet is in order.

My husband loves pinto beans and I have found out that they are really good for diabetics. So I would like to find some different ways to use them in our meals.

I’ve found some recipes online, but I would really like some proven recipes that are really good. I tried the pinto beans and ham bone with onions and cornbread and it was good. Salt is a no no in our house as well.

I would love to get some input! Thanks!

Soak dry beans overnight. Drain and put in crock pot. Add chopped onions, good beef sausage and can of Ro-Tel tomatoes. Also low sodium beef broth.

Diabetes are greatly occur to diabetic person by several fold compare to a non-diabetic person. so there should be some medical explanations right. but i could not really find any relation between them. Help me please.

Okay first off lets set something straight, type II diabetes can strike anyone !

Type II diabetes is also mostly genetic, if a family member has it ie,
parent , uncle, grandfather, great aunt…etc.

Then you have a much higher chance of developing it.
You can excercise and diet all you want to ward it off, but that doesn’t mean you won’t get it !

A lot of medical people will tell you that eating wrong and being fat makes you a candidate for developing type II diabetes.

Thats not quite correct ! There are many thousands of over weight people, and obese people who do not ever develope diabetes.

Diabetes is not caused by what you put in your mouth, but by all means do excercise and eat healthy for other reasons.

It really pisses me off every time some ignoramus says type II
diabetes is caused by being fat and lazy and eating junk food !!!

I’m a type II diabetic and ive never been fat ! Ive never been over weight
and never shoved junk food and sweets down my throat !

I have it because my mother has it, and she too has always been as thin as rake.

But as i said diet and excercise will be of great help to you,
if a family member has it, then dieting and excercise
will not only keep you in shape, but may hold off a diabetes diagnoses
for yourself for many years.

I’m not diabetic but it seems that following a diabetic diet plan to lose weight might be sensible, as my downfalls are mainly sweets and carbs.
Can following a diabetic diet plan be beneficial to a non-diabetic? Can I possibly lose weight faster that way?
I figure cutting sugars and carbs to a bare minimal could be a good thing, but I’m not sure.
If anyone has any idea, please let me know!

Eating healthy is always a step in the right direction to staying healthy. Its great that you are taking this important step be sure to include a good work out plan and you will have a long and healthy life.

Here are a few links that should help:
http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/diet.html
http://www.dietpower.com/dietplanner.php

good luck!

Hypoglycemia: nervousness, irritated, dizzy……

Hyperglycemia: thirsty, faint

see lists below

I know in hyperglycemia the glucose is floating in the blood and isn’t getting into the brain thats why people feel confused often. But in hypoglycemia, the brain should have plenty of glucose because it is stored in the brain and elsewhere thats why the bloood glucose levels are low. Anyone agree with me? why not?

No. Hypoglycemia means there is not enough glucose in the blood or in storage, either, so the brain is starving. That is why hypos are dangerous. If there was any glucose in storage, the body would’ve have released it already to bring the levels back to normal.