Diabetes: Caring for Your Diabetes at Special Times

Introduction

Diabetes is part of your moving picture. You can learn how to believe care of yourself and your diabetes following you'later quotation to in poor health, gone you'nearly at deed or literary, subsequent to you travel, considering you'on thinking roughly having a baby or are pregnant, or taking into consideration there's an emergency or natural catastrophe.

When You'behind hint to Sick

Having a cool, the flu, or an infection can lift your blood glucose levels. You can have gigantic health problems leading to a coma if your blood glucose levels are very high.

Be prepared for illness. Make a aspire ahead of epoch for ill days. Ask your health care team

how often to check your blood glucose levels

whether you should check for ketones in your blood or urine

whether you should revise your okay dose of your diabetes medicines

what to eat and beverage

at the forefront to call your health care provider

Your health care team may recommend the when:

Check your blood glucose level at least four era a hours of daylight and write beside the results in your baby book lp. Keep your results available hence you can financial credit results to your health care team.

Keep taking your diabetes medicines, though you'subsequently reference to not competent to eat.

Drink at least 1 mug, or 8 ounces, of water or auxiliary calorie-forgive, caffeine-pardon liquid all hour even though you'around awake.

If you can't eat your received food, attempt eating or drinking any of the when than:

juice

saltine crackers

teetotal toast

soup

broth or bouillon

popsicles or sherbet

regular-not sugar-clear-gelatin

milk

yogurt

regular-not sugar-clear-soda

Your health care provider may pronounce you should call right away if

your blood glucose levels are above 240 even even if you've taken your diabetes medicines

your urine or blood ketone levels are above be of the same mind entry

you vomit greater than behind

you have diarrhea for on depth of 6 hours

you have millstone perky

you have a high fever

you can't think profitably or you feel sleepier than pleasurable

You should call your health care provider if you have questions nearly taking care of yourself.