Diabetes Should Monitor Post Meals Gluclose Levels for 2 Hours, Study Recommends

The international diabetes federation recently published a report, that let us diabetics know that post meal sugar levels also need to be carefully watched. There it is such a thing as having your blood sugar level to high, and it can be dangerous.

Its Christmas time once again, coma and most of us nine have to worry about what we eat as long as we eat in moderation. However, diabetics must watch what they eat all the time, and Christmas must be so frustrating to those diabetic patients.

It is now suggested that after a meal diabetics must closely monitor their blood sugar levels. Elevated levels of glucose that dramatically rise can do even more damage than just an even rise in the blood sugar. Diabetics really need to watch this at Christmas time from as well as either time during the year after meals.

The focus is always been for diabetics to lower their blood sugar levels, and the diabetic patients have gotten very good at this. However, they are neglecting a quick rise in the blood sugar that stays out there for a while and that can cause problems.

After a diabetic eats a meal, and their glucose levels, should stay under 7.8minimoles per liter, and these levels will return to normal within two to three hours after the meal to avoid hypoglycemia.

Currently a lot of studies point to a relationship between high sugar and oxidative stress, which can sometimes leads to the narrowing the blood vessels. When your blood vessels get too narrow, it is hard for the blood to speed through veins, so therefore you develop high blood pressure.

High blood pressure can be a complication of diabetes, and that is something that you need to avoid at all costs. Having to high of a sugar level, can also cause in inflammation in the walls of your arteries, damage to your eye, kidney disease, and those are just a few of the complications that high glucose sugar levels can aid in the development process, if they are not careful with what they eat.

The researchers also said that a two-hour time limit for monitoring those after meal glucose levels is a good measure and should be the standard measuring procedure for diabetics. If the diabetic checks their elevated blood sugar levels for just an hour may overdose on the insulin by not giving the first run enough time to work, the two hours time limit will allow the insulin to work properly.

source: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/91954.php