Fasting blood sugar 5.6, postprandial blood sugar 15.6, how to deal with it?
The fasting blood sugar is 5.6mmol/L, which is normal, but the postprandial blood sugar is 15.6mmol/L, which has exceeded the standard. Faced with this situation, we have no particularly good solution, but can only control sugar honestly. After all, diabetes cannot be cured at present.
Talking directly about sugar control, some people may not care. Because diabetes is a chronic disease, the body may not show any discomfort in the early stage, which makes many people mistakenly think that diabetes is not harmful.
In fact, long-term hyperglycemia can lead to lesions of vascular endothelial cells. Where the blood vessels are blocked, there will be corresponding symptoms. For example, if it is blocked in the lower limbs, the lower limbs will feel worse, the skin temperature will decrease, the blood vessel pulsation will be weakened, and then the appearance of diabetic foot will occur.
Such lesions are often not formed in one or two days, and it requires a long-term process. Active sugar control can effectively delay the appearance of these complications.
The five chariots of sugar control are: blood sugar monitoring, medication, diet, exercise, and education.
- Blood glucose monitoring
It can guide the sugar control program of sugar friends, and can also reflect the sugar control results of sugar friends. For example, the measured postprandial blood sugar is 15.6mmol/L. If you only rely on diet and exercise, it may be difficult to lower blood sugar, and you need to cooperate with hypoglycemic drugs. After taking hypoglycemic drugs, we can check the blood sugar level by monitoring blood sugar.
- Drugs
Drug hypoglycemic is the most effective and most direct. We sugar friends don't have to worry, we must use the drug, we can't stop. At present, there are many diabetes friends who are all pre-medicated and cooperate with a good lifestyle. Then, after the blood sugar is well controlled, slowly reduce the drug until the last "streaking".
- Diet
Diet is the basis of sugar control, especially the increase in blood sugar after meals, which is closely related to diet. The postprandial blood sugar is 15.6mmol/L. We should pay more attention to whether we have eaten some foods with high sugar content and high glycemic index. For example: frying, grilling, ice cream, sugary drinks…
- Exercise
Exercise is not recommended for postprandial blood glucose of 15.6 mmol/L. Because the insulin at this time is more severely inhibited, exercise will aggravate the decomposition of ketone bodies, resulting in ketoacidosis.
In the future, when the postprandial blood sugar is lower than 14.0mmol/L, we need to increase moderate-intensity aerobic exercise, such as jogging, swimming, badminton, etc. Exercise at least 3 times a week for more than 1 hour each time.
- Education
Education is to learn more about diabetes. The more you know, the more beneficial it will be for sugar control. To give a simple example, dietary sugar control, if you don’t even know the parameters of sugar content, glycemic index, glycemic load, and calories, how can you control your diet?
In general, after finding that the postprandial blood sugar is 15.6mmol/L, we will start to actively control sugar. Sugar control is not unilateral, but multi-faceted. Learn more and live with self-discipline to keep your blood sugar under control!