Since December 15, the temperature in many places has plummeted, and experts from diabetes hospitals have proposed that winter is the most difficult season to control blood sugar, and cold weather causes blood vessels to constrict, affecting blood circulation, and at the same time interfering with the secretion and utilization of insulin, making diabetic patients more likely to have elevated blood sugar. When blood sugar levels rise or the condition worsens, the body responds with some feedback.
Experts from the diabetes hospital remind the majority of diabetic friends:
If you experience the following four signs when you sleep at night, your body may be alerting you that diabetes may be getting worse. Please go to the hospital as soon as possible** to avoid delaying the condition and getting complications prematurely!
Frequent night wake-ups, more than twice
Frequent waking up and urinating at night, even more than two or three times, is a clear sign of worsening diabetes. When blood sugar is poorly controlled, the amount of sugar in the urine increases, triggering osmotic diuresis, which leads to frequent nocturia. It's like when pickling a radish, if there is too much salt, the water in the radish will be expelled. If there is a fine foam in the urine and it does not dissipate within ten minutes, it may mean that the high blood sugar has caused damage to the kidneys and diabetic nephropathy may occur.
Wake up at night and sleep poorly
When blood sugar levels rise, the nervous system is affected, interfering with sleep, making it easy to wake up at night, resulting in poor sleep quality. In particular, patients with type 2 diabetes who are obese or have a thick neck have a very high probability of snoring (obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome), which will cause them to be prone to intermittent hypoxia, poor breathing, and easy to "suffocate" when sleeping.
Nightmares at night, headache and fatigue in the morning
If you have nightmares at night and have a weak headache in the morning, it may mean that you have low blood sugar during the night. Nocturnal hypoglycemia usually occurs between 1 and 3 a.m. and often occurs in sleep. Some sugar friends may go straight into the coma stage without any warning, which is very dangerous if not detected in time. If your blood sugar is below 5 at bedtime6mmol l, it is recommended to add a proper meal, you can drink some milk or eat some biscuits, or eat some fruit to replenish blood sugar in the body and prevent hypoglycemia at night.
**Itching, worse at night
*Itching can be a sign of elevated blood sugar. In winter, the weather is dry, and sugar friends are prone to itching. If the condition worsens, the itching sensation will be worse. Long-term elevated blood sugar may lead to poor microvascular circulation and weakened local cell function, which will cause damage to various organs in the body, and the damage to ** is also very obvious.
During the day, you may be distracted by your busy schedule, but at night there is nothing else to distract you from, and you feel more itchy. If sugar friends often do not sleep well, it will lead to an increase in the secretion of glucocorticoids and other glycemic hormones, and a decrease in glucose utilization, making it more difficult to control blood sugar. Therefore, when sugar friends have the above four manifestations, they must be treated in time.