Diabetes type 2: Rushing to the toilet with gastroparesis could signal high blood sugar
Type 2 diabetes is deceptively dangerous because the condition doesn’t usually present any symptoms for many years. In fact, symptoms may only show up when high blood sugar levels – a complication of type 2 diabetes – start inflicting damage on body parts. Some of the most acute warning signs fall under the umbrella of neuropathy.
Diabetic neuropathy is a type of nerve damage that can occur if you have diabetes.
As the Mayo Clinic explains, high blood sugar (glucose) can injure nerves throughout your body.
When high blood sugar assaults the nerves in the autonomic nervous system, which controls your heart, bladder, stomach, intestines, sex organs and eyes, it can gastroparesis, warns the health body.
Gastroparesis is slow stomach emptying, which causes nausea, vomiting and loss of appetite.
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Take diet first. A common misconception surrounding type 2 diabetes is that you must follow a different dietary regime to everyone else but there is nothing you cannot eat if you have type 2 diabetes.
While there is nothing you cannot eat, you must limit your intake of certain items that can cause blood sugar spikes.
Starchy foods, such as potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, can send blood sugar levels soaring, for example.
“They all contain carbohydrate, which is broken down into glucose and used by our cells as fuel,” explains Diabetes UK.
These food items rank high on the glycaemic index (GI) – a rating system for foods containing carbohydrates.
To keep blood sugar levels stable, you should opt for items that rank low or medium on the GI index.
Examples include wholegrain bread, whole-wheat pasta and basmati, brown or wild rice.
“They also have more fibre, which helps to keep your digestive system working well,” adds Diabetes UK.
Exercise also offers a potent weapon against high blood sugar by drawing on reserves of sugar stored in your muscles and liver.
“As your body rebuilds these stores, it takes sugar from your blood,” explains the Mayo Clinic.
You can be active anywhere as long as what you’re doing gets you out of breath.
This could be:
- Fast walking
- Climbing stairs
- Doing more strenuous housework or gardening.
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