Health Care

When the diabetesein disease, levels of glucose in their blood will be increased from the normally even if he does not eat.

This was due to reduced effectiveness of the hormone insulin when the body is in pain conditions. While the liver to produce glucose even when not eating.

The hormone insulin plays an important role in the process of moving glucose from the blood into body cells. In the cell body to produce glucose and then calories metabolism (energy).
The reduced effectiveness of the hormone insulin also resulted in decreased glucose levels that enter the cell. As a result the body’s cells lack glucose and try to get the calories from the breakdown of fat. Solving the fat will produce cetone bodies that can result in cetoacidosis.

The hormones produced by the body during illness and to help cope with illness (physical stress) also has the effect of increasing levels of glucose in the blood. Emotional stress and surgery also affect blood glucose levels.
Therefore, when diabetesein easy to lose control of blood glucose and thus require special care.

What to Do When Diabetesein Moderate Pain

• Check your blood glucose more often than usual, if you need to do every 4 hours.
• Do check urine ketones, especially if blood glucose over 240 mg / dL.
• Use of insulin / oral hypoglycemic drugs in accordance with the program during the illness although diabetesein not eat. It is important to remember, time, dosage, and drug reactions. The results will be very useful notes for the purposes of medical treatment continued.
• Immediately to a doctor to treat the disease.
• If possible keep eating regularly.
• When the symptoms of nausea and vomiting, try to eat soft food or liquid in small portions but frequently but the amount of total calories the same as usual. Try drinking a 400cc liquid every 1 hour for example tea, fruit juice, or diet soda.
• Drink plenty of decaffeinated fluids every hour to prevent the shortage of body fluids (dehydration). Drink slowly little by little will help if there is pain in the stomach (solar plexus).
• Check the temperature of the body 4 times a day when your body feels more warm than usual (fever).
• Rest and do not do sports activities during illness.
• Keep a list of phone numbers to contact doctors, nurses, hospitals, and ambulances.
• Seek medical attention if the disease can not be overcome or worse.

Contacting Mandatory Health Workers If ..

• Unable to eat according to a regular eating plan selasma more than 8 hours.
• The assessment of blood glucose above 250 mg / dL for 2 consecutive days.
• Blood glucose levels fell below 70 g / dL for more than 1 time during the illness and no symptoms of hypoglycemia on blood glucose levels below normal.
• Vomiting at intervals of 2 times or more within 4 hours, or constant diarrhea.
• Abdominal pain that suddenly.
• In type 1 diabetes mellitus diabetesein found significant levels of urinary ketones.
• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath. That is one symptom that shows too many ketones in the blood.
• Symptoms of infection more than 2 days: fever (390C) that accompanied the headache and chills.
• Start bersugesti to change the dose of insulin injections for pain.

Health Officials To Inform About ..

• Old sick and old do not eat from that as usual.
• When and how many doses of the hormone insulin injections or oral hypoglycemic drugs last given.
• Blood glucose levels in the last 24 hours.
• Urine ketone test results.
• Temperature Conditions.
• The frequency of diarrhea and vomiting.
• Food and beverages consumed when ill.
• Drugs used to treat pain.

Medications that May be Used As Hospital

Avoid medications that have side effects increase or decrease in blood glucose levels. Contact your doctor prior to using these drugs