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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.

Here are some general guidelines for blood sugar ranges:

For people who don’t have diabetes, normal blood sugar is between 70 and 99 mg/dL.

For diabetics it is usually between 80 and 130 mg/dl.

• One or two hours after eating

For people without diabetes, blood sugar one to two hours after eating is usually below 140 mg/dL.

While for diabetics it is usually in the range below 180 mg/dl.

You should contact your doctor immediately if your blood sugar level is above 300 mg/dl.

In severe cases, very high blood sugar levels (well above 300 mg/dL) can lead to coma.

A blood sugar level between 180 and 250 mg/dL is high. Glycemia Low is when it is less than 70 mg/dl.

Blood sugar levels above 250 mg/dL or below 50 mg/dL are dangerous and you should see a doctor right away.

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Dangers of high blood sugar

High blood sugar levels or hypoglycemia can be experienced by people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and pregnant women with gestational diabetes.

This condition can sometimes affect even non-diabetics.

However, it often only affects people who have the disease, such as people who have recently had a heart attack, stroke, or serious illness.

To control your diabetes, you need to make sure your blood sugar levels are within the normal range.

But no matter how careful you are, if you have diabetes, hyperglycemia can occur at any time.

Identifying and treating hyperglycemia is very important because if left untreated, it can lead to significant health problems.

Hyperglycemia poses a risk if blood sugar levels rise significantly or last a long time.

Very high blood sugar levels can lead to life-threatening consequences such as:

People with type 1 diabetes are more likely to experience diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a condition caused by the body’s desire to consume fat for energy, which can result in a diabetic coma.

People with type 2 diabetes are more likely to experience a hyperosmolar hyperglycemic state (HHS), which is extreme dehydration caused by the body’s efforts to get rid of excess sugar.

Regularly having high blood sugar levels for a long time can cause permanent damage to organs such as the kidneys, blood vessels, eyes, nerves and nervous system.

If you experience frequent hyperglycemia, talk to your doctor or diabetes care team.

To maintain adequate blood sugar levels, you may need to make changes to your medications or lifestyle.

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