High levels of glucose indicate an inability of the body to produce insulin sufficient enough to support metabolism. Glucose is used by the body in normal aerobic metabolism, converting sugar into energy for muscles. A delicate balance called homeostasis is maintained by the brain to ensure enough sugar is present for the functions needed. This is where hunger and thirst come into play. However, the body needs insulin, a hormone created by the pancreas, to unlock the sugar and use it properly. If sugar levels drop too low lethargy can set in and will not be remedied until glucose is introduced into the body orally or dextrose injected into a vein. Too much glucose can also cause lethargy but because of the body resorting to the less efficient anaerobic metabolism. This method produces large amounts of waste in the cells and blood stream and requires the introduction of insulin. high levels of glucose may indicate a disruption of homeostasis or problems with the pancreas, likely due to early onset type II Diabetes. Talk to your Doctor.
If you have prolonged high blood sugar then ketones will begin to form in your bloodstream.
Subsequently, your body will try to naturally flush them out by constantly urinating. This is what gives a lot of people that "sluggish" or nauseous feeling when they are in hyperglycemia. Also, the constant thirst attributes to the constant urinating.
Absolute, worst case scenario: The person will go into hyperglycemic shock, and possibly die, and/or die of ketoacidosis. BUT, if proper procedures/precautions are taken to prevent or treat extreme hyperglycemia, then going into hyperglycemic shock is unlikely.
If your blood glucose level is high. It is very risky and harmful to you because this directly effect to your heart and body. It is very important that your blood glucose level should be normal.
The Dangers Of High Blood Sugar - What You Should Know
Elevated blood sugar is fairly common, it also goes fairly unnoticed in most individuals. Why? Simply because until the effects become advanced, you wont notice anything different about yourself.
Lets break the whole thing down, allow me to explain.
For an individual to have high blood sugar, one of two things has already happened.
1. Their insulin sensitivity has decreased enough that blood sugar levels have raised to a higher fasting level. This is the moment when you first wake up, before you eat, before you stretch, before you start to stress out. All the tiny little things that can go towards altering your blood sugar levels have not yet interfered with them and subsequently your sugar levels should be perfect, the average reading being 5.5 or 100 depending on which part of the world your from. In an individual whose insulin sensitivity is lessened, the levels will be up, maybe not an awful lot but enough to raise a few small alarms.
2. Their insulin sensitivity has already been lessened for quite some time and so to compensate, the body has upped the amount of insulin secreted to combat rising sugar levels, as a result of this continual upped level of insulin, the pancreas begins to suffer fatigue and will in time collapse from exhaustion as so to speak.
As you can see, both points are pretty much the same thing but 2. is a more serious stage than 1. The tragedy of this scenario is that most people will sail blissfully unaware, through both stages, until the time the pancreas can temporarily no longer do its job. It is then that blood sugar levels will go through the roof in a matter of days as the body goes into meltdown and hospitalization will almost certainly be inevitable.
The tragedy here is that if most people were to catch it in time, high blood sugar problems would never exceed point 1. and they would naturally reverse back into a normal range.
The dangers of high blood sugar are real, there is no question about it and as the damage is slowly done, it is done so under an invisible veil. The best cure is is actually prevention.
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The risks of having high blood pressure are: Heart disease, kidney disease, hardening of the arteries, eye damage, stroke (brain damage).
you need to go for a walk and burn the energy off.
You could die with too high of a blood sugar.
if the blood glucose is to high then you can get Extreme thirst, having to urinate often, Dry skin, Hunger, Blurred vision, Drowsiness, Wounds that are slow to heal.
If you have diabetes and your glucose levels are high you can risk to develop a condition called HONK (hyperosmoral non ketotic coma). It is rare but it's one of the worse consequences.
Going into a coma is possible
i have a blood glucose level of 116 is that high
Glycogen is usually broken down in the cell. This will happen when the cell needs energy and ATP is broken down to form glucose.
No. Glucose is a type of sugar and should not be taken if blood sugar is too high. This would only serve the increase blood glucose levels.
insulin is secreted in response to high blood sugar.
Well, a healthy level of blood glucose wouldn't be too high or too low. Instead, it would be in the middle between high and low. Unhealthy levels of blood glucose would be an extremely high number.
The purpose of the glucose receptors is to detect blood glucose levels. The Islets of Langerhorn dispatch alpha cells to detect low blood glucose and beta cells to detect high blood glucose levels.
Insuline and Glucagon control blood glucose. Insuline: brings down high levels of glucose. Glucagon: brings glucose levels back to normal, (brings glucose levels up).
you have high blood sugar... get that checked
Excessive diuresis withou high blood glucose levels
Pancreas detects blood glucose level by its cells called "Islets of Langerhans." When the blood glucose level is too high, it releases insulin. When it becomes too low, the pancreas then releases glucagon to elevate a low blood glucose.
A) Blood glucose levels that fall too low signal the release of glucagon B) Blood glucose levels that rise too high signal the release of glycogen C) Blood glucose levels that rise too high signal the release of epinephrine D) Blood glucose levels that fall too low signal the release of insulin
A) Blood glucose levels that fall too low signal the release of glucagon B) Blood glucose levels that rise too high signal the release of glycogen C) Blood glucose levels that rise too high signal the release of epinephrine D) Blood glucose levels that fall too low signal the release of insulin