After reading this article, I actually dare to drink milk tea!

Milk tea is no longer just a drink, but also a "tool".

It may be a "happy endurance tool" for some people, it may be a "social tool", or it may be someone's "prevarication tool"...

The sugar in milk tea not only brings happiness and socialization, but may also bring health problems beyond obesity.

One of these health problems is "sugar."

The "Body Journey" of Sugar in Milk Tea

Speaking of which... (Click on the image below to have a surprise)

The average person does not appear to urinate sugar!

Multiple tissues and organs in the human body have a regulatory effect on blood sugar, so the blood glucose concentration of normal people generally does not exceed the limit value after drinking milk tea.

At the same time, there is an important step in our kidneys to ensure that sugar does not appear in the urine. The filtration function of the kidneys allows glucose in the blood to reach the renal tubules. The vehicles that act as "porters" there (sodium-glucose synergistic transporters, including SGLT1, SGLT2) re-carry glucose into the bloodstream.

This step created a that prevented glucose from being excreted from the urine, and this was the kidney sugar threshold. We can understand that the blood glucose level of urine glucose is about to appear, which normally does not exceed 10 mmol/L2.

When does urine sugar appear

For diabetics, when blood glucose levels rise above the, the glucose filtered from the kidneys suddenly increases. Since glucose is an important source of energy for our body and cannot be allowed to lose it in this way, the porter (SGLT2) is instructed to expand the team and deliver glucose back to the bloodstream, and at the same time the is constantly increasing to prevent glucose from being discharged.

So the question is, if the urine sugar is positive, it must mean that the blood sugar is bursting?

Not all urine glucose is positive

It's all blood sugar that's not well controlled

If you are a type 2 diabetic in front of the screen and are currently taking SGLT2 inhibitors, but you have a positive urine glucose, is the drug not working? Or did the drug cause some adverse reactions?

Don't panic!

The phenomenon of urine glucose caused by such drugs is actually caused by its special mechanism.

After all, through different pathways, the ultimate goal of hypoglycemic drugs is to control blood sugar levels.

Then again, although drinking milk tea is very refreshing, milk tea has a high sugar content, and long-term large drinking may cause high blood sugar and even diabetes, then...

This article is reviewed by experts

Fan Linlin

The First People's Hospital of Jining City

Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Endocrinology

Xu Naijia

Department of Endocrinology, Wuhan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Master of Clinical Medicine, Wuhan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Li Zhong

The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University

Deputy Chief Physician of the Department of Nephrology

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Approval number: CN-94911 Expiration date 2023-4-26