Signs that blood sugar is unsafely high

August 30, 2022, 6:41 p.m

If you have a lot of sug­ar in your blood, it does not mean that you are sweet. This means you are not safe. Here are five symp­toms that your blood sug­ar lev­els are out of whack.

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Blood sug­ar lev­els are a very impor­tant part of our well-being that should not be ignored. When there is an imbal­ance, health can begin to fal­ter and dete­ri­o­rate. For exam­ple, dis­eases of the heart, liv­er, kid­neys, stroke begin. And, of course, high blood sug­ar is the first step towards dia­betes. There­fore, it is nec­es­sary to mon­i­tor the symp­toms of high blood sug­ar lev­els. They can range from the most sim­ple and incon­spic­u­ous to com­plex and dan­ger­ous, those that are sim­ply impos­si­ble to ignore.

Fur­ther in the arti­cle, read every­thing you need to know about high blood sug­ar.

READ ALSO: 5 Ways to Reduce Blood Sug­ar

What you need to know about blood sugar levels

Accord­ing to doc­tors, high blood glu­cose occurs when there is too much sug­ar in the blood. This is called hyper­glycemia and hap­pens because your body does­n’t have enough insulin (the hor­mone that trans­ports glu­cose in the blood) or if your body can’t use insulin the way it should.

This con­di­tion is often asso­ci­at­ed with dia­betes.

READ ALSO: Dia­betes: who is at risk and how to avoid it

What number is considered critical and dangerous

A blood sug­ar lev­el over 180 one to two hours after a meal is con­sid­ered too high.

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Why is hyperglycemia dangerous?

Too much sug­ar in the blood, over a long peri­od, can dam­age the blood ves­sels that are respon­si­ble for sup­ply­ing blood to the heart and kid­neys. You can also get dia­betes.

Why People Don’t Know They Have High Sugar

Not every­one can notice that their blood sug­ar lev­els are out of order. Some symp­toms mas­quer­ade as symp­toms of oth­er ill­ness­es, such as the com­mon cold. And some may devel­op slow­ly. In addi­tion, we are used to ignor­ing our health to the last, because of which a banal increase in thirst can sim­ply be for­got­ten.

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Symptoms of hyperglycemia

Here are the main symp­toms of high blood sug­ar to watch out for:

• Feel­ing tired. Extra sug­ar is not always extra ener­gy. The body is not able to use the excess to prof­it, so there is a feel­ing of fatigue, espe­cial­ly after eat­ing.
• Increased uri­na­tion and thirst. The kid­neys can’t do their job of fil­ter­ing out excess sug­ar in the blood, and in try­ing to do so, it increas­es the fre­quen­cy of uri­na­tion. Such actions cause con­stant thirst and dehy­dra­tion.
• Weight loss. If you’re los­ing weight and your appetite is fine, it could either be a worm infes­ta­tion or an ele­vat­ed sug­ar lev­el. This hap­pens because there is too lit­tle insulin in the body to respond to excess glu­cose. There­fore, the body begins to use fat and mus­cle to pro­vide ener­gy.
• Loss of vision. Hyper­glycemia increas­es the num­ber of blood ves­sels in the eye. There­fore, vision falls, and there is even a risk of going blind.
• Numb­ness and tin­gling in the limbs. They arise due to nerve dam­age, neu­ropa­thy. There­fore, if your limbs often tin­gle or go numb, espe­cial­ly your fin­gers, you should take care of the sug­ar lev­el.

And how to low­er blood sug­ar lev­els, we have already writ­ten. Good health to you!