HOW DOES FASTING AFFECT DIABETES PATIENTS?
During fasting, blood sugar can drop dangerously. This is more common in patients who use insulin or take multiple oral diabetic medications.
Hunger begins approximately 8 hours after sahur. The body primarily uses the sugar stores in the liver as a power source. Then, as a power source, since there is no new food intake to the body, it continues to provide power by melting the stored fats. As a result, acid-containing issues in the blood begin to increase and after a certain amount of time, it reaches a dangerous level for health.
Blood sugar values will rise in the middle of the fasting day, even in diabetics who are treated not only with medication but also with diet. When thirst accompanies this, the basis for the emergence of unwanted health problems will be prepared.
Skipping meals can cause blood sugar to go too low (hypoglycemia).
If the feeling of hunger is high, it will cause the next meal to be eaten in excess, which will reveal the picture called hypoglycemia.
WHAT ARE THE RISKS THAT MAY BE EXPERIENCED WHEN DIABETES PATIENTS FAST?
Especially important low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
Diabetic coma (ketoacidosis)
Significant thirst (dehydration) in the body
Tendency to clot in the veins (thrombosis)
Due to prolonged dehydration, low blood pressure, fainting, risk of fracture and coagulation blood disorders may occur.
WHO IS MEDICALLY RECOMMENDED NOT TO FAST?
- Children under puberty
- Elderly
- Patients
- Pregnant women
- Postpartum women
- patients
- Diabetes patients with blood sugar irregularity and taking pills
PATIENTS WHO DESERVE THE RISKS AND WANT TO FAST, WHAT SHOULD PATIENTS CONSIDER?
- Follow an updated nutrition program compared to Ramadan.
- Arrange your medicines to take them at iftar and sahur, do not neglect them.
- Apply the principle of eating less but often in the middle of iftar and sahur.
- Limit foods that have the potential to raise blood sugar, such as bread, pita bread, pastries, rice pilaf, pasta, potatoes, and sugary foods.
- Prefer to have a breakfast diet with protein-rich foods such as milk, cheese, yoghurt, eggs, and vegetables and fruit.
- Protein-containing foods provide long-term satiety when they stay longer in the stomach.
- Being dehydrated for a long time negatively affects the kidneys.
- Drink 12-14 glasses of water (2-2.5 lt) in the middle of iftar and sahur to protect kidneys, one of the organs most damaged by diabetes.
LET’S REMEMBER!!!
“Taking care of the body entrusted to us is the greatest worship”
