Stress is dangerous in diabetes
If you take excessive stress then it has a bad effect on your overall health. When stress increases, the body releases many types of hormones, which can increase the amount of glucose in the blood. This means that stress can have a negative impact on a diabetic patient. When you are stressed, the body releases two hormones called adrenaline and cortisol into the blood and your breathing rate increases. In such a situation when the body cannot understand this, blood sugar starts increasing. Constant state of stress affects both your physical and mental health. Therefore, if you are a diabetes patient then learn to control your stress.
Taking stress is dangerous in diabetes
Stress can affect you in different ways. Your body reacts to the stress you feel. When people with type 2 diabetes feel mental stress, blood sugar levels usually increase. At the same time, patients with type 1 diabetes may feel something different. This means that due to stress, blood sugar can increase and sometimes it can also decrease. Both of these conditions can affect people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
How to avoid stress?
To avoid this, first understand the cause of your stress. Be sure to check your blood sugar at that time. Like many times people feel very stressed in the office on Monday. If this is the case with you too, then track your blood sugar that day. Try to minimize stress. Constantly check this pattern for a few weeks and try to eliminate or reduce it.
How to recognize if you are stressed?
Having a headache, muscle pain or tension, sleeping too much or too little, feeling tired, irritable, depressed, restless, being anxious, withdrawing from people, eating too much or too little, drinking too much or smoking.
How to control stress?
Exercise regularly Do exercises like yoga or tai chi Use mindfulness techniques like meditation Avoid known stressors Reduce caffeine intake Talk to friends and family
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