Diabetics or diabetics are advised to always control blood sugar levels in their bodies.
SuaraJawaTengah.id – Stress can have a bad impact on the sufferer’s body diabetes. Though people with diabetes or have diabetes are advised to always control blood sugar levels in their bodies.
But the ability to control will decrease if people with diabetes experience stress. Stress that occurs when a person is faced with a challenge or threat, makes the body produce more hormones such as cortisol, epinephrine, and norepinephrine.
The three hormones are believed to trigger physical reactions such as an increase in blood pressure, alertness, excessive sweating and an increased heart rate.
Doctor Dyah Purnamasari, Sp.PD, KEMD revealed, when the catecholamine stress hormone increases, the sugar level will also increase depending on the degree of the diabetes stage.
“If it is mild, usually the increase in stress hormones does not really affect blood sugar. It can still be compensated by the ability of the pancreas to increase the insulin hormone to respond to the stress hormone,” he explained in a virtual discussion session in Jakarta, Friday (6/11/2020).
In people with diabetes who are already severe and receiving insulin therapy, light stress caused by not getting enough sleep for a few days can also affect the trend of increasing blood sugar levels than usual.
You can imagine the impact of severe stress on diabetics, both physical and psychological stress.
Therefore, he suggested that diabetics can avoid and manage stress, for example by getting enough rest or exercising.
“Stress can also be in the form of illness, such as fever, flu and others, that’s called physical stress. So as much as possible avoid stressors,” he concluded.
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