Although this is a great thing, it has also led to a high incidence of chronic diseases such as diabetes in the mainland people to some extent.
Since we cannot completely cure diabetes at our current level of medicine, it is also very important for diabetics to control blood sugar through the management of daily life in addition to taking medication on time.
However, some sugar friends have a one-sided understanding of "controlling diet", and often understand "eating more vegetables" as "eating more vegetarian food", which leads to unstable blood sugar control.
Doctors remind that for diabetics, there are 3 kinds of vegetarian food that need to be eaten cautiously and as little as possible to avoid rising blood sugar and even causing serious consequences.
Uncle Chen, 65, died of complications of diabetes
Uncle Chen is 65 years old this year, due to years of unhealthy eating habits, and is not willing to go to morning exercise with his wife and children, he was diagnosed with diabetes last year because he was measured for fasting blood sugar for more than 8mmol/L.
The doctor prescribed antidiabetic drugs to Uncle Chen, and told him to change his life and eating habits and control his blood sugar within a reasonable range. At the beginning, Uncle Chen strictly followed the doctor's advice, took medicine on time every day, not only ate more vegetables and eat less, but also went to exercise with his wife and children every day, and soon, Uncle Chen's blood sugar returned to the normal range.
This made Uncle Chen very happy, but also let him relax his vigilance, he felt that now his blood sugar has been relatively normal, so he also does not regularly monitor blood sugar, hypoglycemic drugs are also "eating the last meal without eating", feeling uncomfortable to eat once, worse, Uncle Chen is not too careful in his diet.
Because Uncle Chen used to love sweet potatoes, potatoes and other foods, but in order to control blood sugar, Uncle Chen deliberately reduced the number and quantity of sweet potatoes and changed to eating vegetables. After the blood sugar control was good, Uncle Chen resumed his "hobby", eating sweet potatoes, potatoes and other foods every day, and felt that "anyway, he also eats vegetarian dishes, which should have no effect on blood sugar."
Since about half a month ago, Uncle Chen often felt thirsty and weak, and at first he felt that this was the cause of his diabetes, so he didn't care too much, but just took the antidiabetic medicine again.
But in the past few days, Uncle Chen felt that his symptoms were getting more and more serious, and obviously the weather was getting warmer, but he often felt that his limbs were cold and he had become very sleepy.
Before going to bed at night, Uncle Chen told his wife about the abnormal situation that occurred, and when his wife heard it, he advised him to go to the hospital the next morning to take a look, but what he did not expect was that Uncle Chen was urgently sent to the hospital because of his coma that night.
After emergency examination, the doctor found that Uncle Chen's blood glucose was as high as 32mmol/L, while the osmotic pressure of plasma was as high as 360mOsm/L, and the diagnosis was hyperglycemia and hyperosmolar coma, and the condition was very critical.
Unfortunately, although the doctor tried his best to rescue him, he still could not save Uncle Chen's life. Uncle Chen's wife and son were deeply saddened to hear this bad news, and they did not expect that Uncle Chen's blood sugar was already high enough to take his life.
How prone to complications when blood sugar is high?
The doctor explained to Uncle Chen's family that although hyperglycemia and hyperosmolarity are a serious acute complication of diabetes, it has a high fatality rate and is a very dangerous diabetic complication. However, the disease is actually very insidious at the beginning of the disease, and only a small number of patients have a rapid onset.
In fact, from the time when Uncle Chen initially felt thirsty and weak, he may have been ill, but at that time, Uncle Chen did not pay attention to it, nor did he go to the hospital for treatment, check blood sugar, etc., delaying the condition, and eventually leading to Uncle Chen's death.
The reason why Uncle Chen has hyperglycemia and hyperosmolarity is that he thinks that his blood sugar is well controlled, he can "relax his vigilance", not only do not take medicine on time, but also often eat sweet potatoes, potatoes and other foods that rise in sugar fast, making blood sugar too high, resulting in a significant increase in plasma osmolality and a dehydrated state.
In general, if the human blood glucose rises to more than 16.7mmol/L in a short period of time, there may be acute complications of diabetes, in addition to hyperglycemia hyperosmolarity, complications such as diabetic ketoacidosis may also occur.
Although the fatality rate of diabetic ketoacidosis has dropped significantly with the advancement of medical care, it may still threaten the lives of patients in cases such as delayed treatment.
Because diabetic ketoacidosis can also lead to dehydration or even shock in the body, and when ketoacidosis occurs, the body will begin to excrete potassium in order to regulate the acid-base balance in the body, resulting in a decrease in blood potassium in patients. A decrease in serum potassium may affect heart rhythms and even lead to cardiac arrest.
If people with diabetes do not have good blood sugar control, in addition to leading to acute complications, it may also lead to the occurrence of some chronic complications.
If in terms of blood glucose levels alone, as long as the patient's blood sugar exceeds the normal range, then the patient's body has actually begun to be damaged by high blood sugar, and the higher the blood glucose level and the greater the fluctuation of blood sugar, the more serious the damage.
Common chronic complications of diabetes include diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy, and diabetic foot, but these chronic complications do not take the life of patients at once, as acute complications do.
According to the quality of the patient's blood glucose control, the patient may have chronic complications after several years or even more than ten years of diabetes, so as long as the patient follows the doctor's instructions, controls the blood sugar well, and checks regularly, it can greatly delay or even avoid the arrival of chronic complications.
Doctors remind that if the patient's fasting blood glucose often exceeds 7mmol/L, blood glucose often exceeds 11.1mmol/L 2 hours after meals, which needs attention, because even if the blood glucose exceeds the standard, it may cause complications due to the accumulation of high blood sugar.
In addition, assessing whether you have complications of diabetes depends not only on the condition of blood glucose, but also on data on glycosylated hemoglobin.
Glycosylated hemoglobin is used to assess the patient's blood glucose fluctuations in the past period of time, if this indicator exceeds 8.1%, usually doctors will think that the patient's blood sugar control is not good, the fluctuation is large, then the probability of complications is also relatively large.
Therefore, doctors remind that if patients want to avoid the occurrence of diabetic complications, they must regularly monitor blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin indicators.
In order to achieve the ideal state of their various indicators, patients should pay attention to daily diet management and cannot "take it for granted" to misinterpret "medical advice".
Eating less of these 3 vegetarian foods is more conducive to blood sugar control
Doctors said that doctors usually remind diabetics to eat more vegetables and other foods with slow sugar, and pay special attention to control starch-rich foods such as refined rice noodles. But in fact, there are many patients like Uncle Chen, who often one-sidedly understand the doctor's advice, simply equate "vegetables" with "vegetarian dishes", and feel that eating more "vegetarian dishes" will not affect blood sugar.
Doctors remind that for diabetics, eating 3 less vegetarian foods is of greater help in controlling blood sugar.
The first vegetarian food is Uncle Chen's favorite sweet potatoes, potatoes and other starch-rich foods, including lotus root, yam and other vegetarian foods belong to this category of food.
Although this kind of food is said to be "vegetarian dish", but they are rich in starch, the effect of diabetics eating more of this type of food and eating more rice is "almost", because starch will soon be decomposed into glucose in the human body, the absorption rate is still very high, and the rate of sugar rise is very fast.
If diabetics eat a lot of starchy foods, it will lead to a rapid rise in blood sugar, large fluctuations, and starchy foods have higher calories, eating more such foods may cause patients to consume more total calories, which may cause obesity and other problems.
The second vegetarian food is pickle food, and pickles and so on belong to this list.
Many people, especially the elderly, prefer to eat pickles, on the one hand, they feel that pickles are heavier and less delicious, and on the other hand, of course, because pickles are cheap and can be stored for a long time.
But the problem is that pickles often need to add a lot of salt in the production process, eating more pickles will make the human body consume more salt than the standard, which will cause high blood pressure or other cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
For diabetics, if too much table salt is consumed for a long time, it may also make the blood vessels spasm or make the blood more viscous. Simply put, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia and high blood sugar will affect each other, resulting in a worsening of the patient's condition.
In addition, pickles may also contain bacteria or impurities, which may cause patients with weak resistance to diabetes to become infected with bacteria. After diabetic patients are infected, it is relatively more difficult to treat, so patients should still start from diet, eat less pickled foods, and avoid "disease from the mouth".
The third vegetarian diet is nuts such as peanuts and pine nuts.
Many people believe that eating nuts every day is good for their health, so they insist on eating a little nut-like food every day.
Eating less nut-like food is of course conducive to good health, but everyone knows that this type of food is often "eating and can't stop", unconsciously eating too much. Because nuts are usually rich in fat, if diabetics eat too many nut-like foods, they may become obese because they eat too much fat, and make insulin resistance worse, resulting in increased blood sugar.
Therefore, diabetics eat more of these 3 vegetarian foods not only to control blood sugar, but also to aggravate the situation of diabetes, and even accelerate the progression of diabetic complications. Doctors remind that for diabetics, adhere to a low-salt, low-sugar, low-fat diet, eat more vegetables instead of "vegetarian dishes" in order to effectively control blood sugar.
After listening to the doctor's explanation, Uncle Chen's family members regretted it, they only thought that eating more vegetarian vegetables was good for health, but they did not expect that sweet potatoes, potatoes and other vegetarian dishes were the culprits of "sugar", and finally "killed" Uncle Chen, this lesson is too painful.