Cold is one of the very high incidence of diseases, although this disease is limited to the body' harm, but once the cold will be fever, cough, runny nose, serious and even lead to headaches, throat inflammation and other problems, so after the cold must be timely oral medication treatment.
If the cough is particularly serious after a cold, it can also be treated by taking cough potion, but because the cough potion is relatively sweet, diabetics should not take cough drops casually when they have a cold and cough.
Can people with diabetes drink cough potions?
1. Read the instruction manual
Diabetics are most afraid of the rise in blood sugar in the body, so even if the cough after a cold is particularly serious, they dare not drink cough potion, because they are afraid that the sugar content of cough potion is relatively high. In fact, whether diabetics can drink cough potion should be decided by reading the instructions.
In fact, many cough potions are sweet to drink but do not contain sugar, and the sweetness of the potions may actually be related to licorice or sweeteners.
Therefore, not all cough potions contain sugar, the reason why cough yo water is sweeter, on the one hand, is to be more suitable for children to take, on the other hand, this kind of potion, mainly rely on its own viscosity to adhere to the drug on the throat, so as to play a role in cough in a short period of time.
Therefore, diabetics drinking cough potions with sweeteners will not adversely affect blood sugar, and there is no need to worry too much.
2. Sugary cough potion
Here it is also necessary to remind the majority of diabetic patients that some cough drops do contain sugar, generally fructose, sucrose, maltose, etc., which will be converted into glucose after entering the body.
Glucose will have a great impact on blood sugar, but because the amount of cough syrup taken each time is relatively small, the impact on blood sugar will not be too large, so diabetics can also drink cough syrup with confidence.
However, diabetics should also pay attention to the fact that if they suffer from some acute and chronic complications, or if the body has an infection, then even if you have a cold and cough, you cannot take cough medicine, otherwise it is easy to affect the blood sugar value.
There is also for some diabetic patients with poor blood sugar control, it is best not to take cough drops, because when the blood sugar in the body is not controlled, it is easy to cause blood sugar levels to fluctuate after taking cough drops, so you can choose other cough medicines instead, so as to avoid causing damage to your health.
3. Drink less cough syrup
Whether it is a normal person or a diabetic, you should remember that you must drink less cough yo water, and you must not take cough medicine immediately after a cold and cough, because there are many reasons for coughing, so you must first figure out the cause of cough, and then you can take medicine under the doctor's advice.
Otherwise, taking cough syrup as soon as you catch a cold is not only easy to hurt your body, but also affects your blood sugar level, which everyone must be clear.
The above introduced the precautions for diabetic patients taking cough syrup, because diabetes is a very serious chronic disease, so in addition to actively controlling blood sugar, you should also pay more attention to preventing colds. Once you have a cold, you will have cough, fever and other symptoms, and when taking medicine, it may also affect the blood sugar value in the body, so even the cough syrup can not be drunk casually, otherwise once the blood sugar rises, the harm to the body will be particularly great.