What diabetic patients need to pay attention to in spring

  Spring is the season of recovery, but also a good season for disease, for diabetic patients, spring is like a critical juncture, improper conditioning, it is easy to raise blood sugar, aggravating the disease; on the contrary, if properly maintained, can make the disease stable, safe through the eventful spring. So what should diabetics pay attention to in the spring.  The unpredictable climate of early spring is a test for diabetic patients. Diabetic patients are affected by the warm and cold climate in early spring, it is easy to catch respiratory diseases, but also easy to produce mood swings, followed by high and low blood sugar, aggravating the disease, and even easy to induce a variety of diabetes complications. Therefore, diabetic patients in the spring should pay attention to the following points: 1, the prevention of cold diabetic patients have such experience, after the cold blood sugar changes greatly, the original has been well-controlled blood sugar levels will suddenly rise, discomfort symptoms followed. This is because diabetic patients have a poor ability to resist disease, and the body is unable to drive away evil after a cold, which is more difficult to cure than normal people, and the course of the disease is extended to several weeks, or even one or two months. After the rise of blood sugar caused by cold, some complications will follow, such as neuropathy and retinopathy, which will cause irreversible consequences.  Therefore, diabetic patients should not take colds lightly and must take strict precautions. During the epidemic period, you should go to less crowded public places, wear a mask when you go out, and pay attention to increase and decrease clothes in time with the change of temperature.  2, prevent cold and keep warm As the saying goes: spring cover autumn freeze, a hundred diseases difficult to touch. Spring cover is especially important for diabetic patients. As the cold weather has not really passed, diabetic patients due to peripheral nerve lesions, sometimes can not precisely feel the temperature change, so do not rush to take off the cotton clothes, especially pay attention to the hands and feet to keep warm.  3, regulate the diet diet conditioning Chinese medicine believes that: spring diet should save acid to increase the sweet to nourish the spleen. In other words, eating more acidic food will make the liver fire hyperactive and damage the spleen and stomach, so you should eat more food rich in high-quality protein, vitamins and trace elements, such as lean meat, poultry, eggs, fresh vegetables and fruits to nourish Yang and converge Yin, nourish the liver and protect the spleen, and prevent the occurrence of various vitamin deficiencies.  Therefore, diabetic patients should increase the intake of foods such as purple cabbage, bitter melon, yam, carrot, onion, garlic and black fungus in spring.  4, regulate the emotions Chinese medicine believes that if the emotions are too aggressive or inhibited, can be manifested as a slight stimulus that angry anger, anger is hurt liver, liver loss of drainage, depression and fire, fire burning Yin and Jin, then cause blood sugar to rise. Modern medicine also proves that when the mood fluctuates, the adrenal glands secrete adrenaline in large quantities, which stimulates the release of liver glycogen and at the same time inhibits insulin secretion, thus raising blood sugar.  Therefore, patients themselves should pay attention to emotional regulation, especially family members should give more care and love to patients in life, so that they can fully enjoy a good, warm family life. But also pay attention to the care method, do not make patients feel that they can not, aggravate the ideological pressure, in order to facilitate the stability of the disease as a guideline.  5, spring outdoor activities In the sunny, breezy and beautiful spring, birdsong and flowers, you can go for a walk in the countryside, tread the green, play in the stream or look high and far to cultivate the mood, so that their spirit and mood with the spring nature, in order to drain the liver qi. It has been proven that not only can you improve your mental and emotional state, but also your blood sugar can drop and your condition can improve.  6, pay attention to get up and live In early spring, winter cold has not yet disappeared, early bed rest in the evening, get up a little later in the morning, wait for the sunrise and then go out, in order to avoid the stimulation of the morning cold. At the same time, you should also increase physical exercise to promote blood circulation and make the blood and Qi run smoothly, so as to achieve the purpose of enhancing the immunity of the body, reducing diabetes complications and smoothly controlling blood sugar.  Diabetic friends in general, for the sake of health, let’s prepare together.