For sugar friends who have already suffered from diabetes, their daily life is not just about taking hypoglycemic drugs and injecting insulin. Because of the fluctuation of human blood sugar, it involves diet, weight, living habits and other aspects.
Therefore, in order to fully stabilize blood sugar, patients need to adjust from many aspects such as diet and exercise in addition to taking drugs.
According to the data available to the clinic, there are two main benefits of exercise for diabetic patients, the first is to control weight gain and alleviate the symptoms of insulin resistance. Especially in obese type 2 diabetics, exercise is necessary to control weight. The second is that exercise can improve muscle sensitivity to glucose, increase glucose consumption, and help stabilize blood sugar.
It is also because of the multiple benefits of exercise that many diabetics begin to exercise blindly without consulting a doctor. As everyone knows, not all diabetics are suitable for exercise, such as the following types of patients are not suitable for exercise:
1. Diabetic foot
This is one of the most common complications of diabetes, when patients develop peripheral neuropathy and peripheral vascular lesions, it will combine with excessive mechanical pressure, resulting in damage to soft tissues and joints of the foot.
Initially, the injury may present as paresthesias, intermittent claudication, and then gradually progress to perspiration, loss of temperature and blood circulation regulation, skin ulcers and infections, and gangrene of the feet. In the clinical view, if the patient has diabetic foot, in order to avoid further development of the disease, in this case, it is not suitable for physical exercise;
2. Patients with frequent hypoglycemia
As mentioned above, exercise can improve glucose consumption, alleviate symptoms of insulin resistance, and then play a role in lowering blood sugar.
However, if the blood glucose control of diabetic patients has not been stable, and symptoms of hypoglycemia have recurred, it is not suitable for physical activity in this case. If the patient is forced to exercise, it will only increase the consumption of glucose, and in the case of severe hypoglycemia, the patient will even be comatose, shocked, and die;
3. Concomitant cardiovascular disease
Diabetes can cause vascular pathopathy, which includes microangiopathy of the heart and large blood vessels, which is the leading cause of death in people with diabetes. Among vascular lesions, coronary heart disease is the most important complication, and the risk of death in diabetic patients with coronary heart disease is 3-5 times that of non-diabetic people.
If the patient has developed coronary heart disease and performs a large number of sports, it will often increase the burden of heart pumping, resulting in a sudden increase in myocardial oxygen consumption, and may cause sudden angina, myocardial infarction and other problems, and even the risk of sudden death;
4. People with obvious drug control
Some patients are accustomed to starting exercise after oral hypoglycemic drugs, in fact, this practice is very unscientific, because hypoglycemic drugs have begun to play a role, at this time with sports, it is easy to cause hypoglycemia.
In addition, if after oral hypoglycemic drugs, it is found that the drug effect is very good, in the absence of exercise, blood sugar has dropped to normal levels, blood sugar drop rate is obvious, in this case can not be casually physical exercise.
Finally, we should remind everyone that if diabetics have multiple complications, or if blood sugar control is very unstable, in this case, you need to consult a doctor first to see if your physical condition needs to cooperate with exercise, and then choose according to the doctor's recommendations. Do not exercise blindly, so as not to cause unnecessary damage to the body.