What does your body do when your blood sugar is too high?

Answer 1

Blood sugar varies a lot over the day, between about 67mg/dL and about 140mg/dL in normal people. The lower levels are expected when fasting (like when you have just woken up), and the higher levels right after eating and for about 2 hours. If you have just woken up after not eating for 8 hours, then 126mg/dL is considered too high and a likely sign of Diabetes. Above about 180, your kidneys will start to filter out sugar and excrete it in urine, leading to the primary symptoms of diabetes: dehydration, excessive urination, and gradual starvation. Above this level for long periods of time (weeks) can cause cumulative damage to organs, eyes, fingers and toes.

425-900+ is life threatening immediately and may lead to diabetic coma.

Answer 2

When the blood glucose content in our body increases, the first mechanism in our body is to increase the production of insulin from the pancreas to decrease it.

If you're diabetic, you either can't produce enough insulin, or your body has become resistant to it, so the blood glucose content won't be lowered enough.

Glucose in high quantities is an oxidizing agent -- it slowly burns tissues on contact. This leads within hours to:

* feverish feeling

* extra urine production as kidneys attempt to dispose of excess glucose - leading to dehydration and thirst.

* slight but continuous damage to pancreas, kidneys, eyes, fingertips.

Over weeks or months there are long-term effects which tend to make diabetes worse. These include:

* Body acclimation to high blood sugar, making normal sugar feel 'low' and bad.

* Damage to cell walls causing insulin resistance and further impairing insulin use

* Damage to surviving pancreatic beta-cells, further impairing insulin production

In addition the rest of the body is affected:

* Nerve and circulatory damage to toes, fingers, and eyes (neuropathy, retinopathy)

* Kidney damage

* Circulatory and heart damage

Answer 3

Add more protein to your meals and cut way back on the simple carbohydrates, such as white bread, pasta, Diet Soda (always a bad choice!), and baked goods.

also eating like described will help you LOSE WEIGHT. also one of the most important things to do is aerobics exercises.

Answer 4

The classical triad of diabetes symptoms is polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia, which are, respectively, frequent urination; increased thirst and consequent increased fluid intake; and increased appetite.

Type 1 diabetes may also cause a rapid yet significant weight loss (despite normal or even increased eating) and irreducible fatigue. All of these symptoms except weight loss can also manifest in type 2 diabetes in patients whose diabetes is poorly controlled.

Blurred vision is a common complaint leading to a diabetes diagnosis; type 1 should always be suspected in cases of rapid vision change whereas type 2 is generally more gradual, but should still be suspected.

Patients (usually with type 1 diabetes) may also present with diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), an extreme state of metabolic dysregulation characterized by the smell of acetone on the patient's breath; a rapid, deep breathing known as Kussmaul breathing; polyuria; nausea; vomiting and abdominal pain; and any of many altered states of consciousness or arousal (such as hostility and mania or, equally, confusion and lethargy). In severe DKA, coma may follow, progressing to death. Diabetic ketoacidosis is a medical emergency and requires hospital admission.

A rarer but equally severe possibility is hyperosmolar nonketotic state, which is more common in type 2 diabetes and is mainly the result of dehydration due to loss of body water. Often, the patient has been drinking extreme amounts of sugar-containing drinks, leading to a vicious circle in regard to the water loss.

Answer 5

After a meal the blood sugar level rises and an appropriate amount of insulin is released. The insulin causes cells muscles to become permeable to the glucose. In the liver the glucose is converted to glycogen. In this way level of sugar returns to normal.

Answer 6

Its very harmfull for health. human body should maintain it. not so high not so low. just balanced.