Insomnia, constipation and infection can cause hyperglycemia

The main manifestation of diabetes is high blood sugar. Therefore, the main task of diabetic patients is to control and stabilize blood sugar to avoid serious consequences caused by excessive blood sugar. However, many diabetic patients still encounter high blood sugar and cannot control it well, but cannot find a solution. Reasons, let us take a look at the factors that cause high blood sugar in diabetes.

 

Diabetes experts analyze that we often encounter some patients in clinical practice. Although the dosage and types of drugs are constantly increasing, their blood sugar remains high. In addition to common drug factors (such as secondary sulfonylurea failure, etc.), dietary factors (such as loose diet control or unreasonable structure, etc.), and exercise factors (such as insufficient exercise), we can also find some factors that seriously interfere with blood sugar lowering. The trigger for the drug to take effect. We call these inducements "difficult to control blood sugar factors."

 

Once the factors that make it difficult to control blood sugar are found and appropriate syndrome differentiation treatment is given, blood sugar often drops rapidly, and the dosage and type of antidiabetic drugs are also reduced. The main causes of difficulty controlling blood sugar are as follows:

 

Insomnia: due to high blood sugar, thirst and drinking a lot of water, and frequent urination at night;

 

Or older diabetic patients with a long medical history are often accompanied by decreased renal tubular function;

 

Or elderly men with enlarged prostate may urinate frequently at night; some patients like to drink coffee, tea and other beverages before going to bed, which can lead to mental excitement;

 

Various factors such as pruritus in the elderly or itching caused by diabetic skin lesions can cause insomnia in diabetics.

 

In addition, excessive psychological burden, worry, and upset can all lead to insomnia. In short, there are many factors that lead to insomnia, so you need to look for them carefully. Such patients often have more severe insomnia and higher blood sugar levels.

 

Constipation: Constipation can be caused by weakened gastrointestinal motility due to diabetes, too little fiber intake, taking drugs that affect gastric motility, too little exercise, etc. Some patients have a bowel movement every two or three days, and in severe cases, they have a bowel movement every three or five days or even more than a week; there are also some elderly people who cannot stop defecation. Constipation not only hinders the body's metabolism and reduces the excretion of toxins, but also often brings serious ideological burden to patients, making constipation more and more serious and blood sugar getting higher and higher.

 

Mood swings: People with diabetes are affected by society, family, relatives and friends, etc., which can easily cause mood swings. Some are worried about the outcome of their illness, some are worried about excessive medical expenses, and some are sad and anxious about family discord and the neglect of relatives and friends. I once met a patient whose blood sugar was well controlled with insulin. On the day he had an argument with his wife, his blood sugar soared. Even if the insulin dose was doubled, he still could not control it.

 

Infection: People with diabetes have low immune function and an increased chance of infection, which often causes elevated blood sugar levels. The most common ones are respiratory infections, followed by urinary system infections. Even carbuncles on the back, gum abscesses, acute tonsillitis, etc. can also cause blood sugar fluctuations. There is such a patient who has small pus and boils on his skin all over his body. His blood sugar has been fluctuating between 200 and 250 mg/dl two hours after a meal. After using heat-clearing and detoxifying Chinese medicine to eliminate the pus and boils, his blood sugar quickly dropped to normal, and his blood sugar dropped. The dose of medicine was also reduced accordingly.

 

Experts suggest that in addition, women may suffer from irregular menstruation (especially dysmenorrhea, which can cause increased blood sugar), leucorrhea, limb pain caused by diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetes combined with frozen shoulder, excessive drinking (especially liquor), and too many snacks. Overwork, etc. are all causes of high blood sugar. Therefore, when looking for factors that make it difficult to control blood sugar, don’t ignore the details.