Six things that can affect our blood sugar level.

When someone have diabetes regular check-up of blood sugar is Essential. This is because regular checks help us to know what is its effect and what we could do differently to stay in target range of blood sugar.

We as diabetes patient do a lot to keep our blood sugar level in a optimal range. We eat only balanced meals, exercise regularly, takes our medical at right time but sometimes even often our best effort blood sugar readings don’t come in target range.

Depressing? Offcourse it is, Well managing diabetes isn't sometimes as simple as just eating and exercise right. There are many other factor that impact our blood sugar and we might unawer of them.

Hence are some to surprise you.

Whenever we get sick our body release hormones that increase our blood sugar.
That's why it is important to test our blood sugar and even have a plan in the place with our doctors for why to do and how to manage blood sugar until we get well.

Stress also triggers our body fight or fight or flight response and this can release hormones that ultimately increase our blood sugar.
Here, it is important to know that whenever we experience some stressful event, it is always better to look for ways to relieve that stress, to keep our glucose level balance.

A good night sleep helps our body to balance blood sugar by regularly. Hormones a lack of sleep disturb this regulation.
With repeatedly sleep loss, hormone that regulate sugar level (Insulin) release in less quantity and hormone that could increase blood sugar (cortisol) release in excess.

Additionally lack of sleep increase appetite and cause us to crave for more sugary food, thus causing rise blood sugar

Timing of medication is one of great way to keep our blood sugar in normal range. If we take or medication too soon it may cause hypoglycemia. If we take them too late, we max experience a spike in blood sugar.
So it's always better to follow a medication schedule very properly.

Dawn phenomenon refers to hormonal change that cause our blood sugar to increase in early morning before we consume our breakfast.
Why this happen? This is because our body makes extra glucose in night to avoid period of hypoglycemia which sleeping and insulin to regular this extra sugar but in diabetes people, this regulation is absent because of insulin resistance and not too much insulin.
Resulting in morked blood sugar.

Insulin is used by many diabetes patients to lower blood sugar, but what if your blood sugar is not in target rate even after you took insulin?
This is also because of multiple factor?

Timing is important and ideally always time your insulin with meal for proper cover.

It is also important to inject right dose at right site. Insulin is best absorbed when injected subcutaneously.

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