Diabetes Patients: When Not To Exercise
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Loading ...For diabetes patients, just as it is important to maintain regularity, timing, frequency, duration and intensity of exercises to achieve best results, it is also important to listen to your body when it sends out signals not to exercise.
Excessive Blood Glucose
Exercise should be avoided when blood glucose levels are higher than normal, that is:
• Above 300mg/dL for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and
• Above 400mg/dL for Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus.
Blood glucose shoots even higher with exercise. During exercise the liver releases glucose that it has stored. A high glucose level before exercising indicates that you are short of insulin. In such situation it is practically impossible to burn glucose.
Having Ketones In Your Urine
You usually burn fat and glucose when you exercise. When fats are burned it produces ketone as a byproduct. When there is sufficient insulin small amounts of ketone can be used as fuel. But lack of insulin builds up ketones; after certain level they are spilled over into the urine. Thus the presence of ketones in the urine indicates that blood doesn’t have enough insulin to carry glucose to the cells.
When You have an Illness
People suffering from insulin dependent diabetes should avoid exercise when they are sick. Even if they suffer from common ailments like cold, and fever. This is because blood sugar levels go a little haywire during sickness. Exercise makes matter worse.
On the Sign of Pain or Vision Change
Avoid exercise when you are short of breath, feel dizzy or nauseatic. This may indicate heart problem.
Changes in vision that includes blind spots or blurred vision indicate that the diabetic eye disease has worsened.
Pain in legs and feet, tingling in the legs or numbness are signs of diabetic nerve diseases.
In Extreme Weather
Hypoglycemia maybe experienced when you exercise in extremely hot or cold climates. Diabetics suffer from cracked skin in cold weather due to impaired circulation and neuropathy.
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