Since ancient times, the Spring Festival has become a cultural symbol of the Chinese nation.
The annual migration also allows many wanderers to enjoy homecoming reunions, and naturally all kinds of feasts and dinners are indispensable.
People are in good spirits on happy occasions, and when the Spring Festival comes, the blood sugar is high?
During this time, it is naturally more relaxed than usual, but for the majority of diabetic patients, the living habits change suddenly, which will inevitably cause fluctuations in blood sugar, affect the control of the disease, and also bring many threats to the body.
How can diabetics celebrate the New Year healthily?
First, maintain a regular and reasonable diet
For diabetics, a reasonable diet and eating style are very important. If you just take some hypoglycemic drugs and don't adjust your diet, your blood sugar value can't be well controlled.
For diabetics, it is necessary to maintain a regular and reasonable diet during the New Year. Three meals a day can only be kept seven points full, and the phenomenon of overeating cannot occur.
If you feel hungry between meals, you can eat a little coarse grain, or vegetables, and fruits with a particularly low sugar content.
It is worth noting that during the New Year, diabetics should not eat too much greasy or spicy and pickled food. These foods can affect blood lipids and blood pressure in people with diabetes, and can also cause blood sugar levels to rise.
In addition, all alcoholic and sugar-rich drinks should not be drunk, and must avoid the harm of smoking and second-hand smoke.
Second, have sufficient and regular work and rest time
Poor sleep patterns are also one of the triggers for persistently elevated blood sugar levels.
If long-term sleep deprivation affects the cerebral cortex, causing the sympathetic nervous system to overexcite, it will make the hormones against insulin over-secreted.
In this way, insulin is greatly reduced, resulting in a rapid rise in blood sugar.
For diabetics, during the New Year, we must ensure sufficient and regular work and rest habits, do not stay up late, do not turn on the lights to sleep, and do not sleep excessively.
Third, appropriate and reasonable exercise every day
Diabetic patients must pay attention to the maintenance of a healthy weight, if the weight is overweight, it is easy to induce some diabetic complications.
During the New Year period, be sure to maintain a reasonable amount of exercise every day, which can play a role in maintaining a healthy weight. It also plays an important role in stabilizing blood sugar, blood lipids, and blood pressure values.
Fourth, take hypoglycemic drugs on time
During the New Year, there are many diabetics who forget to take their medication or forget to take insulin because they are too busy, which is not okay.
During the entire period of the New Year, it is necessary to take hypoglycemic drugs regularly and quantitatively, and not to reduce or add drugs without permission. In addition, the medication time should also be strictly in accordance with the doctor's instructions.
Elderly sugar friends, you also need to adjust your mentality
Because most of the elderly are idle at home after retirement, the rules of life will also be disrupted and irregular, and over time, it will cause minor mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety.
Older women will also be affected by menopause, often appear insomnia, dreams, dizziness and other symptoms, which will lead to blood sugar often out of control.
On the other hand, some elderly people will also take antidepressants, anxiety and other drugs, which will cause adverse effects such as drowsiness and sluggishness, and finally cause obesity, insulin resistance, and blood sugar imbalance.
Therefore, in response to this phenomenon, elderly sugar friends also need to adjust their mentality, maintain a regular work and rest time, and can choose to take small doses for antidepressants.
When choosing hypoglycemic drugs, avoid choosing hypoglycemic drugs such as insulin and sulfonylureas that increase weight, and can choose some hypoglycemic drugs that can reduce weight such as metformin, SGLT-2 inhibitors, GLP-1 inhibitors, and DPP-4 inhibitors.
As a day of celebration and reunion, it is inevitable that everyone will greet each other and speak auspicious words when they meet.
As a doctor, it is more necessary to make necessary reminders to those sugar friends from the perspective of the disease.
In short, this year we must live happily, healthy and healthy!