Understand the normal blood sugar range for diabetics

KOMPAS.com – Diabetes it’s a long-term (chronic) disease that affects the way your body turns food into energy.

Your body turns most of the food you eat into sugar (glucose), which is then released into your bloodstream.

Your pancreas releases insulin when it levels off glycemia you ride.

In this case, insulin is essential for allowing blood sugar to enter your body’s cells to provide them with energy.

Unfortunately, when you suffer diabetesyour body makes too little insulin or uses it incorrectly.

As a result, too much blood sugar remains in the bloodstream because insulin is low or the cells themselves stop responding to insulin.

Ultimately, this can lead to significant health problems such as kidney disease, vision loss and heart disease.

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Diabetics need to know their blood sugar levels to maintain health and avoid complications.

Knowing your blood sugar levels can also help you act more quickly for undetected blood sugar problems, it can even help people without a diagnosis of diabetes.

In general, the range of normal blood sugar levels is between 70 mg/dL and 130 mg/dL.