Diabetics constantly have to watch their blood sugar levels to make sure they are consistently steady and make sure that they are in their target range. Often times though, diabetics do not maintain a healthy diabetic diet and wind up eating foods that result in higher sugar levels.
If the diabetic lets her blood sugar levels get too high over an extended period of time, she can wind up developing what doctors call hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia can cause some very serious health problems, but this condition can be easily avoided by learning just what causes this condition so these causes can be avoided.
Hyperglycemia is a medical term that simply means a person who has too much sugar in their system. A high sugar level happens when our body can not make the insulin as you see in type 1 diabetics or from our body’s inability to respond to the insulin properly as you see in type 2 diabetics.
First our body gathers the sugar from the foods we eat. The body then needs insulin, which is provided by the pancreas, to help carry the glucose into our blood cells where our body uses it for energy.
This sugar-to-energy process happens in everyone’s body, except in diabetics it has a slight twist. Their bodies either do not create enough insulin or create none at all, and thus the sugar starts building up in their blood stream. If too much sugar starts building up in their blood stream, they can get hyperglycemia.
When people let the extra sugar keep building up in their blood stream, it can lead to some dangerous health consequences. It will first start breaking down their blood vessels and will eventually be carried from the blood to their other vital organs, heart, kidneys, eyes, and nerves.
Many diabetics don’t worry about hyperglycemia because they can not see the effects at the moment. This is because it is a condition that affects people later in life. Diabetics will only see the damaging consequences when they are older as it does not appear in teens and children .
Hyperglycemia is something every diabetic should worry about because it can have some long term very dangerous effects if it is not managed very carefully. It first leads to damaging your blood vessels, then grows into much more dangerous problems. While this condition usually does not present in early childhood, we still need to manage our diabetic diet to prevent it occurring later in life.
I know a few people with hyperglycemia who too don't take advice on their diabetes condition. I think they should read your article.
I’ve never given this a try, but I think it’s about time I do.