How to spend Chinese New Year with diabetes?

  Diabetes is a lifestyle-related disease, and two of the most important aspects of lifestyle are: diet and exercise habits. Therefore, it is the consensus of professionals and patients that reasonable adjustment of diet structure plays an important role in both the prevention and treatment of diabetes. But every year, there are still a lot of diabetic patients visiting the emergency room during the Chinese New Year, how to control diabetes well and have a happy and peaceful Chinese New Year? Here I would like to give you some tips: The first trick: take your medication and injections on time is the most crucial.  The traditional custom among the people in Xuzhou area is that it is unlucky to take medicine and injections during the Spring Festival, so some sugar lovers stop injecting insulin or stop taking glucose-lowering drugs during the festival, which is extremely wrong. Because this mistake can lead to dramatic fluctuations in blood sugar and thus acute complications.  The second trick: “health products” instead of regular treatment is not reliable.  China is the gang of manners, the Spring Festival will give sugar lovers “health care products”, some people will use this instead of regular drug treatment, this is particularly unreliable! Some “health supplements” may disrupt blood sugar, or cause severe hypoglycemia or even induce a coma or heart attack!  The third trick: diet is very important diet includes clean and hygienic diet, regular moderation two aspects. Unclean diet can lead to acute gastroenteritis induced diabetic ketosis, water-electrolyte disorders, hyperosmolar coma and other serious complications. Overeating without regular moderation can lead to dramatic fluctuations in blood sugar, which can also induce cardiovascular complications.  The fourth move: quit smoking and limit alcohol, longevity and happiness First, quit smoking! Friends and family gatherings, after a full meal, the habit of lighting a cigarette and swallowing fog, the beautiful name: a cigarette after dinner, more than the living gods! You know: smoking is bad for your health! Diabetes smoking is equivalent to chronic suicide. Diabetes long-term blood sugar control is not good, easy to produce complications caused by vasoconstriction, such as lower limb vascular occlusion, heart disease, hypertension, stroke, etc.. Smoking will multiply the chances of developing these complications. Therefore, if you do not want to be bedridden due to high blood pressure, myocardial infarction; if you do not want to be paralyzed due to stroke; if you do not want to sleep through the night with pain due to lower extremity vascular occlusion, you must refuse the temptation of cigarettes. In addition, smoking can also cause cough, bronchitis, emphysema and lung cancer; can accelerate skin aging, causing wrinkles; cause diarrhea, indigestion, loss of appetite, loss of taste; cause bad breath, yellow teeth, the whole body smoke smell, called nasty. Causes hand tremors, muscle tension, etc. Women smoking is more damaging to the body.  Secondly, limit alcohol. Some people believe that a small amount of alcohol can eat less, which is conducive to diet control, which is a misconception. Some people also believe that drinking alcohol in moderation can play a role in relaxing the blood and helping to improve the vascular lesions of diabetes. This view may have some truth on the surface, but in general it seems that alcohol is less beneficial and more harmful to people with diabetes and obesity. Alcohol consumption will interfere with normal dietary control and is detrimental to blood sugar stability. Alcohol can increase the chance of hypoglycemia. This is because the energy provided by alcohol is often not efficiently converted into blood sugar, but mostly into heat. In addition, hypoglycemia that occurs due to alcohol consumption is often easily misdiagnosed and therefore more dangerous. Alcohol consumption is not conducive to lipid control and increases the burden on the liver, and long-term alcohol consumption is likely to cause fatty liver and cirrhosis of the liver. Alcohol consumption tends to cause obesity, especially abdominal type obesity. All of the above are unfavorable to patients, so diabetic patients should not drink alcohol, let alone alcohol, if patients have long had the habit of drinking alcohol, and it is difficult to stop for a while, you can drink a small amount of unsweetened red wine. Alcohol should be consumed in such a way that it does not interfere with normal eating and does not cause adverse symptoms. In later life still need to slowly quit.  The fifth trick: get up on time and have a good mind.  Spring Festival party, stay up late for the New Year’s Eve, excessive socializing, sleeping backwards day and night, so that will certainly to blood sugar disorders, God-shaped fatigue. Because of the regulation of blood sugar and other hormones in the human body are regular, especially staying up late most hurt people’s vitality to disrupt the secretion of various hormone regulation leads to the deterioration of diabetes. Therefore, it is advocated to get up on time and have a relaxed mind.  The sixth trick: exercise after meals, get away with longevity.  Chinese Spring Festival figure a reunion. So after the meal are like to sit together to play cards and rub mahjong, for sugar lovers, to avoid this after the meal on the sitting thing. After the meal on the sit, is not conducive to post-prandial blood sugar control, and high blood sugar after the meal is one of the important causes of diabetic heart disease! The ancients have long had the cautionary tale of “sit and wait to die”. It is often said: 100 steps after a meal, live to 99. As early as the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao, the King of Medicine, advocated that people with thirst disorders should walk a thousand steps after eating. Exercise after meals can enhance tissue sensitivity to insulin, can correct metabolic disorders in the body, can maintain a standard weight, can improve the function of the heart and other internal organs, stabilize the patient’s mood, improve confidence in overcoming disease, so exercise after meals, free and long life.