Hyperglycemia

Hyperglycemia

        Hyperglycemia symptoms occur when blood sugar rises above normal levels. This can happen after a big meal or if you are sick (infection, fever, gastroenteritis). Hyperglycemia is usually not serious if the increase in blood glucose is short, but very high blood glucose levels may represent a medical emergency if is not identified and treated appropriately. In addition, prolonged high blood sugar, even moderately, may lead to serious complications of diabetes.

Hyperglycemia symptoms

       Hyperglycemia symptoms are the following:

• Fatigue and sleepiness
• Frequent urination
• Increased thirst
• Excessive hunger
• Thinning
• Blurred vision
• Infections
• Slow healing of wounds
• Dry skin and itching
• Irritability
• Presence of ketones in the urine
• Nausea, vomiting
• Abdominal
• Fruity breath
• Confusion
• Rapid breathing

        If you feel very thirsty and you are always hungry and if you often need to go to pee you should go to a doctor. He will measure your glycemia in order to see if you have diabetes.

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Hyperglycemia treatment

       In the presence of dympyomd of hyperglycemia, the diabetic should follow the next hyperglycemia treatment:

• Measure the blood glucose
• If blood glucose is less than 14mmol / L, the person with type 1 diabetes must check for ketones in the urine or blood
• Drink plenty of water
• Identify the cause
• Correct the cause, if possible
• Contact a doctor or go to the emergency: If blood glucose exceeds 20 mmol / L ; If the presence of ketones in the urine is moderate to high; It is impossible to keep ingested liquids

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Postprandial hyperglycemia

       Postprandial hyperglycemia represent the glucose level after the meal. Ussualy this level is higher after a meal and is very important to measure your glycemia because repeated high values indicate diabetes.

Hyperglycemia diet

        130 g fruit, have 12% sugar content, this represents a contribution of about 15 grams of carbohydrates. As the fruit is eaten alone, the 15 g carbohydrates will move rapidly into the blood, leading to a theoretical capacity to raise blood glucose up to 4 g / l (15 g carbohydrates broken down into 5 liters of blood in the body of an adult).

        If the fruit is eaten after a meal balanced with mixed veggies, hot cooked vegetables, meat, and cheese 20% fat, carbohydrate intake of the meal will be almost identical to what would bring fruit eaten alone, but there will be however a major difference in the behavior of blood sugar as the fruit mixes with other foods in the intestines. The result will be a much more gradual transition of carbohydrates in the blood.

       Never alone: When food is eaten bringing sugar alone, it is rapidly digested and sugar rapidly enters the blood. By cons if it is eaten with other foods that are not bringing sugar, digestion takes longer and the sugar passes more slowly in the blood. Thus, a fruit eaten alone, in the middle of the afternoon for example, will raise blood glucose, whereas if it is eaten at the end of a meal, the effect on blood sugar will be lower.

        In a hyperglycemia diet is reccomanded to eat greens and other vegetables "non-green color" as tomatoes, carrots, red cabbage, eggplant. They bring a small amount of sugar and are rich in fiber, which slows the passage of the intestine to the blood sugar foods.

       Their presence is essential whenever the meal contains bread or flour derivatives, starch (potatoes, pasta, rice, semolina, maize) or fruit. Biscuits are not recommended because they contain 75% sugar and are digested faster than bread. The breakfast cereals are not recommended on a daily basis because their digestion is rapid by cons, there is no harm in eating an occasional bit of grain in a large bowl of cottage cheese at 0% or 20 % fat.

Acute hyperglycemia symptoms

       Hyperglycemia symptoms can have serious consequences on a person. Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar coma are one only two of the most serios complications of the hyperglycemia. Renal and heart disorders occur very often. Most often diabetes affects the view.

Hyperglycemia causes

• The main causes of hyperglycemia are:
• Excess supply
• A decrease in physical activity
• Lack of insulin and / or oral medications (dosing error)
• Physical stress (illness, surgery, infection, etc..) Or psychological (bereavement, new job, moving, etc..)
• Taking certain medications (like cortisone)

       Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease. It is believed that the combination of genetic predisposition and other factors (not identified) prompt the immune system to attack the insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and destroy them. Diabetes type 2 is mainly due to resistance to insulin. This means that, regardless of the amount of insulin, the body can not use it properly. Therefore, glucose can not be transported from the blood into cells.

       Over time, excess glucose in the blood leads to a gradual deterioration of the pancreas, reducing its production of insulin and makes it even harder to balance blood sugar.

       Obesity is a major cause of resistance to insulin, 90% of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight. In addition, genetic factors are likely to play in the onset of type 2 diabetes. It has been shown that family history dramatically increases the risk of having this condition.