Don’t worry about high blood sugar, this will work as soon as you do it!

If high blood sugar is not effectively controlled in time, it is easy to cause diabetes. However, few people in life have such awareness, so they always fail to pay attention to their diet and develop good living habits to ensure that the blood sugar level is within a reasonable range. So, once high blood sugar appears, how to treat it correctly?

1. Diet

Eat less at the next meal, skip a snack, or switch to foods with a lower glycemic index (GI). For overweight patients with type 2 diabetes, losing 5-10% of their body weight can significantly improve their blood sugar levels. Therefore, as long as you reduce your calorie intake appropriately, you can achieve better blood sugar control. The general experience is that reducing 15 grams of carbohydrates (equivalent to 50 grams of rice or 30 grams of steamed bread, 150 grams of apples or pears, 400 ml of milk or 300 ml of sugar-free yogurt) can reduce blood sugar by about 1.7mmol/L.

2. Sports

Increase activity or do more exercise. Patients with type 2 diabetes generally get better blood sugar control by increasing exercise. Even simple exercise, such as walking for 20 minutes a day, can effectively improve insulin resistance and reduce weight as long as you stick to it. Studies have shown that through reasonable exercise, diabetic patients can indeed reduce the dosage of hypoglycemic drugs, and can even completely get rid of drug treatment.

3. Medication

Adjust medication (increase the dosage, increase the frequency of medication, or add another hypoglycemic drug). Although exercise and diet adjustment are economical and have few side effects, when these practices cannot bring blood sugar to the ideal level, it prompts us to adjust the medication. Compared with the first two methods, medication can indeed treat high blood sugar faster and more effectively. If you are receiving a small dose of oral medication, your doctor may suggest that you increase the dosage or let you take the medicine once a day into one morning and one evening. If the dosage is already very large, the doctor may give you another hypoglycemic drug.

4. Relaxation and emotional regulation

Self-relaxation and emotional regulation Relaxation exercises (such as deep breathing, relaxing muscles with soothing music, etc.) can help relieve stress and make hypoglycemic treatment more effective. Learning to regulate emotions and enhancing self-efficacy (people's subjective judgment of whether they can successfully perform a certain behavior) can overcome fear, pessimism and other negative mental states after illness, which also helps control blood sugar.