What are the risk factors of being diabetic and drinking alcohol?
If it depends on the type of diabetes, refer to type 2 please.
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Pure alcohol does, in fact, lower blood sugar levels. It also inhibits your liver from releasing some of it’s store of glycogen (the way that the liver stores glucose) when your blood sugar level drops.
Most alcohol, as I’m sure you appreciate, is NOT pure. We tend to drink alcohol in the form of beers, or with added sugar. This tends to raise blood sugar levels.
A bigger problem with imbibing alcohol is the tendency to not recognise the symptoms of either hypo- or hyperglycemia. This means that you’d be less likely to test your blood sugar levels, meaning that you could go either way.
The safest thing for you would be to limit (or should that be moderate?) the amount that you drink, and to not drink without eating. Of course, you blood sugar level may rise considerably … dependent on what, and how much, you drink.
For me, beer and jack shots makes my sugars go low and sugar drinks make me go high however, I never cover anything unless i’m eating along with the alcohol. Also, I’ve drank a lot before and haven’t ever woken up sick or with a hangover. I just cover my little bit of a high in the mornings with my insulin.
well alchohol is full of sugar. sugar turns into fatty build up on the insides of arteries, known as placque. placque build up makes blood thicker and sluggish. sluggish blood can build up on the placque and enventuall can break off. the broke off bits are called thrombolus. thrombilus can travel to the head (causing stoke), leg (cutting off blood supply and starting gangrene and leading to amputation), heart (heart attack)
Pure alcohol does, in fact, lower blood sugar levels. It also inhibits your liver from releasing some of it’s store of glycogen (the way that the liver stores glucose) when your blood sugar level drops.
Most alcohol, as I’m sure you appreciate, is NOT pure. We tend to drink alcohol in the form of beers, or with added sugar. This tends to raise blood sugar levels.
A bigger problem with imbibing alcohol is the tendency to not recognise the symptoms of either hypo- or hyperglycemia. This means that you’d be less likely to test your blood sugar levels, meaning that you could go either way.
The safest thing for you would be to limit (or should that be moderate?) the amount that you drink, and to not drink without eating. Of course, you blood sugar level may rise considerably … dependent on what, and how much, you drink.
Do be careful.
For me, beer and jack shots makes my sugars go low and sugar drinks make me go high however, I never cover anything unless i’m eating along with the alcohol. Also, I’ve drank a lot before and haven’t ever woken up sick or with a hangover. I just cover my little bit of a high in the mornings with my insulin.
well alchohol is full of sugar. sugar turns into fatty build up on the insides of arteries, known as placque. placque build up makes blood thicker and sluggish. sluggish blood can build up on the placque and enventuall can break off. the broke off bits are called thrombolus. thrombilus can travel to the head (causing stoke), leg (cutting off blood supply and starting gangrene and leading to amputation), heart (heart attack)