what is the physiological reasoning behind a diabetic patient be told to increase their insulin dose?
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Ashley J asked:
Diabetic patients who have surgery, become sick, or are under other physiological stress are told to monitor their blood sugar carefully because they may need to increase their insulin dose temporarily. What is the physiological explanation behind this advice?
Darlene
Diabetic patients who have surgery, become sick, or are under other physiological stress are told to monitor their blood sugar carefully because they may need to increase their insulin dose temporarily. What is the physiological explanation behind this advice?
Darlene
February 19th, 2009 at 1:07 am
The psycological trauma causes an increace in hormone output which can effect the amount of insulin releaced by the pancreas which can cause either high or low blood sugar
February 21st, 2009 at 1:29 pm
stress (both physical and emotional), even in non diabetics, can cause a rise in blood sugar, and since a diabetic doesn’t produce any insulin in response, they would need to increase their dosage.
February 24th, 2009 at 3:07 am
There is a form of diabetes called “Traumatic Diabetes”. It is quite common after an accident, surgery, illness etc. It seems to have something to do with the body needing extra “energy” (sugar) to heal itself.
O course, the diabetic already has a tendency towards “extra sugar” anyway, and so needs to monitor the blood sugar levels during times of “trauma” to compensate.
In normal people, this form of diabets will go away after they have healed.