Winter is just around the corner, so I thought I would put up an excerpt from a conversation I had, which would be useful to diabetics during winter.
Is climate in any way, directly or indirectly affect diabetes?
Hot and cold temperatures have no direct effect on diabetes control but can affect your blood sugar, they do not indirectly.While up or down in response to hot or cold temperatures do not have no influence on nutrition and exerciseHabits, which is a key factor in controlling your blood sugar level levels.In warm temperatures, the body can be stressed by heat and high humidity. And that can throw your blood sugar levels control.For those who are on insulin, they lie about a problem in warm climates as an impermissible temperatures can destroy insulin, and it will not work effectively if it is not stored correctly.Winter season, according to some studies is a cause of depression and anxiety, which is aStress condition for the body and stress can in turn impact on blood sugar.
In general, people tend to eat more in winter. In addition, snack more. Under these circumstances, diabetics should take special precautions?
Only can eat a disciplined and responsible to help a diabetic control their blood glucose levels. There's no real harm with snacks when you're hungry, but the important thing is a healthy snack alternatives, which only a good nutritionist can guideon.
In winter it is sometimes difficult to exercise because of the cold. Diabetics should regularly exercise. What do they do?
For those that can be difficult in the cold, they also try to find other options such as exercise:
Heated pools: swimming in the indoor pool is a good way to stay active in the cold season. Swimming is an ideal whole-body exercise for those who have a lot of weight because they can exercise without risk of damage to their joints.
WorkingOut in a Gym: Gyms offer many opportunities to stay on the move indoors, from aerobics to weight machine circuits. Winter could also be a good time to test a trial membership. Studies have shown that strength training helps tone muscles in diabetic patients and keeps bones strong and healthy.
Exercise at home: It is easy to be active, even without leaving home.
Housework routine household chores can exercise, and you'll end up with a clean and tidy house in the trading book. Playing fast-moving musicmay also help.
Exercise Videos: Videos can help people to remain focused, teach new moves and a good warm-up and cool-down periods. Exercise videos made especially for people with diabetes are available. Online videos are available, people can simply be downloaded and used.
All people, the exercise must not forget to clean water or to avoid filling of liquids and electrolytes to drinking sugary drinks.
In places like Delhi, Chandigarh, Jammu in winter temperatures to near zero and in the southHyderabad and Bangalore, is the temperature below 10 ° C. What are the precautions that diabetics should take with regard to skin care, nutrition, sleep, protection, etc.
Winter brings special challenges for people with diabetes.
Keep warm. Wear layers of clothing. Staying warm requires you to trap warm, dry air to the body further.
Watch your weight. Winter can mean an additional 2-5 pounds for many people. This is risky, such as weight gain increases the risk of heart disease.
Mean diabetes-related circulation and nerve problems can be icy cold feet. Do not use hot water bottles, but only wear layers of socks, your feet warm.
Drink lots of water like people who send their sugar levels will be drained
Stay relaxed as stress leads to high blood sugar levels. For those that stress is a routine event, they should learn and practice, relaxation exercises to combat stress.
Guess not always your blood glucose. Sometimes we all havelazy, and instead recommend that our blood sugar testing it on the glucometer. This is not the recommended option. Always test your blood glucose levels and then take the medication. Now and again a year show your doctor how you test your blood sugar level and confirm that you really do it.
If the weather is cold, at the age of elderly people who have a decreased ability to control body temperature and less body fat have greater opportunities to a decrease in body temperature face.Such people and their care recipients should pay more attention to prevent it.
Diabetics are more susceptible to extreme cold?
There is not much difference in terms of susceptibility to cold for a normal diabetic compared to a normal person. But diabetics who have begun to feel in the hands and feet lose, must be very careful, because the cold can cause damage to the hands or feet areas, and the person does not even damage to the causeTime.
This is also a time when people tend to consume more alcohol to ward off cold. Alcohol is not harmful for diabetics even in small quantity? Is there a minimum threshold?
Contrary to popular belief, alcohol does not keep you warm. It actually makes you lose more heat than usual. This is because it dilates blood vessels and enlarged blood vessels in the winter so more heat to escape from the body compared to what is remembered for diabetics that normal.AnotherAlcohol lowers blood sugar levels very quickly, so always eat some healthy snacks with your drinks. The safe minimum limit is a drink for a woman and two drinks for men per day. Everything else will stand out all the positive effects of alcohol on the body.
When people eat more, drink, and occasionally, how often they should go for check-ups?
Typically, the physician who will continue the monitoring of your diabetes treatment to decide who you oftenhave to visit him. In addition to the normal visitors who may once in a week once a month or even once in 3 months you have to visit other specialists within a year or, if you have any problems, more often.
What about juvenile diabetes and winter? A special care or precautions are taken?
Juvenile diabetes is an older term for type 1 diabetes. There are clinical studies have found that environmental triggers contribute to the occurrence ofDiabetes in humans. More people with type 1 diabetes in the winter months and in colder climates usually diagnosed as cold weather is a suspected environmental trigger for the development of type 1 diabetes. So, to summarize, type 1 diabetes should have all the recommendations for the control of blood glucose that all diabetics should follow follow.
Other comments, suggestions for our readers?
Visit your primary doctor who treated you forDiabetes, once a month, or at least once in 3 months.
You have other medical specialists as you visit an ophthalmologist, dentist, etc., as a rule once a year or more frequently if recommended by the specialists.
