Deviv Nutrition

Healthy eating pattern is paramount to sound health throughout life.

What are you feeding your body?

Let's talk about hyperglycemia in Diabetes

Sometimes you check you blood sugar level and you find it is high.

Note: blood sugar is high when the fasting blood glucose level is above130mg/dl usually before breakfast or it is above 180mg/dl 1-2hours after a meal.

However, your endocrinologist or doctor should determine what your normal blood glucose level should be because factors like age, pregnancy etc may influence what your normal blood glucose level should be.

Hyperglycemia can lead to serious complications like heart problems, nerve problem, kidney damage, or eye problem. So, we want to prevent hyperglycemia by all means.

Hyperglycemia could be caused by:
1. Mismatching of insulin/ drug with your food: let's say you are on a rapid acting insulin like lispro or short acting insulin.
The rapid insulin peaks at about an hour while short acting peaks between 2-4hours.
Now if you take a high fat meal let's say akara with this kind of insulin, by the time the insulin peaks, the food is still in the stomach because it takes longer time (not less than 4hours) to digest high fat meals so the food is most likely getting into the blood stream when the insulin has relapsed leading to hyperglycemia.

2. Skipped/delayed meal: if you skip your meal or you wait till later to eat, your body may not be able to handle the glucose in the food because you may more likely eat more leading to hyperglycemia.

3. Irregular eating pattern: lastly that I am going to talk about, if you are fond of eating anyhow, let's say today you ate your breakfast early, tomorrow you decided to take a brunch etc. Your body will not metabolize the food properly. It takes about 4hours for a proper meal to move from the stomach to the bloodstream. So you may want to space your meal time to every 4-6hrs. This again differ from one person to another. It is cool you speak with your dietitian and have the appropriate time suitable for you planned together.