Diabetic Diet & Blood Gluecose

If you have any of the early signs and symptoms of hyperglycemia you need to:

1. Test your blood glucose.
2. If you have type 1 diabetes and your Blood Glucose is more than 300 mg/dl, test your urine for ketones.
3. Call your doctor if your blood glucose is greater than 180 mg/dl for more than one week or if you have two consecutive readings greater than 300 mg/dl.
4. Avoid beverages that contain sugar.
5. Make sure you are following your meal plan, exercise program, and medication routine.

When you have hyperglycemia for long periods of time, damage to nerves, blood vessels, and other body organs can occur.

Ive noticed that when i go through my day and don’t have any sugar i get severe headaches… There not the normal headaches, as pain radiates all over. However all it takes is a piece of fruit or a soda and im fine within a matter of minutes. Is this a symptom of diabetes?

"If I go WITHOUT any sugar…. symptom of HYPERglycemia"? Babe, if you get these when you go WITHOUT sugar, how could you POSSIBLY conclude that you are diabetic, or have issues with TOO MUCH sugar?
The human body requires a certain amount of sugar per day in order to survive. If you get these headaches from LACK of sugar, what you’re experiencing is HYPO glycemia, not HYPER glycemia.
Your body needs some sugar for energy, it needs sugar in order to absorb any water you consume. If you go WITHOUT any sugar, even (especially, rather) if you are dieting, your body will suffer from low blood sugar levels and dehydration. Other symptooms of hypoglycemia may include dizziness and lethargy.
If you’re trying to diet, find sources of complex carbohydrates and complex sugars that your body can break down. Complex carbs do not go straight to fat cells and breaking them down into a usable energy source burns calories.

High blood sugar is known as hyperglycemia

i went to the drs today cos i have felt funny all week.
so he said i have low blood sugar what will raise my blood sugar level.

coffee
salt
chocolate

what will raise it.
what would happen if i raised it to much, would this give me diabites =O

Avoid junk food, white flour, most sugar, fruit juice, and pop with sugar in it.

Switch to a healthier diet.

Eat complex carbs: things like whole grain breads instead of white bread. Whole grain pasta instead of white pasta, brown rice instead of white rice.

Eat a little more protien, but make sure its lean meat, beans, low fat cheese, or fish. No fried food.

Have smaller meals and add in a couple of healthy snacks per day.

Get tested for diabetes every year. I started out with hypoglycemia, and ended up with diabetes and so did my mother. I recommend you get tested. If you are already diabetic, you can feel like you have low blood sugar even when its too high.

Ask for an HbA1c test and a Glucose Tolerance Test.

Get them done every year to keep an eye on this problem. That way, if it does become diabetes you’ll know and can get started on proper treatment before it damages your nerves, eyesight, heart, kidneys and so on.

Good luck!

the ER doc measure my sugar blood level as 171 and took my numbness and in ability to move or control my limbs, and my racing heart as a panic attack…..

what do you think?

i think your best bet is to contact a doctor for some further testing.

yes, 171 is too high for someone without diabetes. HOWEVER…stress will always cause my blood sugar to shoot up and you were in the ER. For a panic attack. also, you don’t mention how long it had been since you had last eaten/drank something. did they have you hooked up to any sort of an IV? IV solutions can sometime contain dextrose.

Speak to your primary doc. Let him/her know that your blood sugar tested high in the ER. they can schedule you for either a fasting glucose or a glucose tolerance test.

are you haveing any of the symptoms of diabetes?
increased thirst
increased urination
unexplained weight loss

The normal blood sugar level of our body is 70 to 150 mg. Above 150 mg is indicative of hyperglycemia or high blood sugar. Chronic low levels falling below 70 mg is indicative of hypoglycemia or low blood sugar.Hypoglycemia is a potentially fatal condition. Symptoms of this condition are lethargy, impaired mental functioning, irritability and loss of consciousness. Persistent hyperglycemia results in diabetes mellitus, which is the most common disease related to blood sugar regulation failure. diabetes can cause eye, kidney and nerve damage.
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Will it go away if the treatment itself gave me a high heart rate, or will i have it forever now?

you better stop the medication and talk to ur doctor….

I am confused with hyperglycemia vs. hypoglycemia symptoms and some sources say one thing, some say something else, but basically I need to know if either of conditions includes lack of appetite or both have polyphagia?

Both hyperglycaemia [hyperglycemia] and hypoglycaemia [hypoglycemia] have polyphagia as a symptom.

In the case of hyperglycaemia, the glucose that’s present in the bloodstream can’t get into the body’s cells for the creation of energy. (In type 1 diabetes this is because there’s either no insulin being produced, or very limited quantities. In type 2 diabetes, the body’s cells are resistant to the effects of the insulin that is still being produced.) Because of this, the body believes it is starving, causing the polyphagia.

In the case of hypoglycaemia, the Blood Glucose (sugar) level has fallen very low. Instinctively, the body wants you to eat, and thereby increase the blood sugar level. Again, polyphagia is the result … at least, until blood sugar levels are back to ‘normal’.

Wrong section, but hyper means overly or too much, hypo is the opposite. Hyperglycemia is elevated sugar levels, hypoglycemia is unhealthy low blood sugar levels.

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How long did it take for you to get diagnosed after experiencing symptoms?

How has this diagnosis changed your life?

Are you modifying your behaivior (diet/physical activity) to help keep it under control?

I kind of forgot which one is which and what are the possible nursing managements?

Hypoglycemia and Macrosomia

http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/UVaHealth/peds_hrnewborn/diabtmom.cfm