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If your blood sugar is high do you take more insulin to bring it down?
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Why would insulin not bring down a high sugar reading?
It depends on the cause of the high blood sugar. If the patient has type II diabetes, their blood sugar may remain high after an insulin injection because their cells are insulin resistant. Often, these patients will be placed on a drug that increases insulin sensitivity, such as Metformin.
Which hormone is released when your blood sugar rises?
Insulin is released, when your blood sugar rises. Insulin is secreted by the beta cells from hormone producing cells of the pancreas gland. Insulin lowers down the blood sugar level.
What chemical breaks down insulin?
Insulin needs potassium to get into the cells.Glucagon is needed to bring your sugar up.
What happens when blood sugar levels are lowered?
Insulin is released into the body when blood sugar levels are high to bring it down a notch
How does insulin bring sugar down to normal levels after a meal?
insulin acts as a key to turn on the active transport of sugar across cell membranes.
Why do some diabetics have to have sugar and some aren't allowed sugar?
Insulin helps break down sugar into energy. Diabetes effects insulin, whether it can't produce insulin, or the insulin it makes is not effective. This means that when you put in sugar, it just builds up, creating high blood sugar. You do need some blood sugar in your body, so you take in sugar. The basic answer is this: sugar in moderation.
What happens when Insulin injections are given without food?
Your blood sugar drops. Assuming you are a diabetic, which would be the only reason you would take insulin, your blood sugar would go down. If you aren't a diabetic and you are taking insulin this could drop your blood sugar to dangerous levels. Causing you to pass out.
Will Coke and rum balance out the sugar in your system?
No, alcohol and sugary drinks cause a rise in blood sugar. The rise in blood sugar cause increased insulin production. The increased insulin will cause a crash in blood sugar levels. In larger amounts, it becomes a bit of an ugly up and down cycle.
What is the fastest way to bring your sugar level down?
Inject yourself with insulin/ Get a dialysis with no sugar on the other side. Both of these are probably fatal.
Why should you regulate blood sugar?
Your body regulates blood sugar. It is only if you have too much sugar (and carbohydrates break down into sugar) that the body can not keep up, does it become a problem. When you eat large amounts of sugar or carbohydrates, it requires the body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin's job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.) Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control. The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance. It is then that you have to regulate your blood sugar via diet, excerise and give you body some help to make the body's cells sensitive again to the insulin.
Is there something you can eat or drink to bring down high blood glucose?
No, there is not. You have to give yourself an insulin shot.
What controls blood sugar levels?
with type ones you must take insulin (medicine given in the form of shots) to control your blood sugar. In some cases of type 2 diabetes diet and exercise alone does not lower the sugar levels alone. A tablet form of medication will also be given to help bring sugar level down.
