Detect a rise in blood glucose it may not be as easy as how to identify hypoglycemia. However, we show you the symptoms you may experience.
Symptoms of hyperglycemia
It is called hyperglycemia to the elevation of blood glucose beyond 200 mg/dL after two hours of food intake or, more than 110 mg/dL fasting.
A rise in blood glucose can produce several or many symptoms, difficult to identify given how diffuse they are. However, it is characterized by blurred vision, fatigue, drowsiness as well as for a considerable increase in thirst and urge to urinate.
If hyperglycemia is persistent, and remains in our body for several days, it can cause a unjustified weight loss and a increased hunger and appetiteto replenish the energy that will be filtering through the kidneys and being lost through urine.
In cases of very marked high glucose, a dehydration with the consequent presence of dry mouth and in the case of diabetics, it can trigger a diabetic coma if not controlled promptly.
For all this, what is recommended before the first symptoms that could cause hyperglycemia it is dosing blood glucose levels to act immediately and reverse the situation that, if it persists over time, can be very harmful to the body and even fatal.
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