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What To Do If You Suffer From Hyperglycemia?

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If you suspect you are suffering from high blood glucose / sugar or Hyperglycemia (Hyperglycaemia) and also experience some of these symptoms, you can do the following:

Check your blood glucose / sugar level immediately using your blood glucose meter
If your blood glucose levels are higher than normal, drink more fluid.  Choose plain water or sugar-free [...]

What are the Symptoms of Hyperglycemia?

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If you experienced one of more the symptoms below, you may be suffering from Hyperglycemia (Hyperglycaemia) or high blood glucose / sugar levels.

extreme hunger
extreme thirst
frequent urination
drowiness
dry skin
blurred vision

What do should do if you are suffering from Hyperglycaemia?  Find out here.

What to do if you suffer from Hypoglycemia (Hypoglycaemia)?

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This is a continuation of my previous posts on Hypoglycemia (Hypoglycaemia) or low blood sugar / glucose or you can read it here.
If you suspect you are suffering from low blood glucose / sugar or Hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycemia) and also experience some of these symptoms, you can do the following:

Today is Dumpling Festival But I Am Not Excited At All - Cos I Can’t Eat

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Today is Dumping Festival or Dragon Boat Festival. It is an important date in the Chinese Calendar to honour Qu Yuan, a patriotic Chinese Poet. Find out more about this Dumpling or Dragon Boat Festival here.
On this day, people will race dragon boats and eat chinese dumplings, glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves. [...]

10 Tips for Prediabetics & Diabetics Before Starting Your Exercise or Weight Loss Programme

One the best ways to stop or reverse prediabetes is to exercise regularly (Read this post for management of diabetes and prediabetes).  It is also good for blood glucose control for people who are already diabetes.  Exercising is also a great way to lose weight and burn some fats for people who are overweight or obese (to find [...]

My Preferred Test for Prediabetes - HbA1c

In diagnosing whether a person has prediabetes or diabetes, a doctor normally relies on the results of some specific glucose tests.
Though the traditionally preferred ways are Fasting Plasma Glucose (FPG) test and Oral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT), i think that the haemoglobin A1C or HbA1c test is a better test for prediabetes. Why do i [...]

Insulin and how is it related to Diabetes and Prediabetes

Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas and it acts as the “middle man” between glucose and our body cells.  Glucose is broken down from the food that we eat and our cells will use the glucose to convert to energy.  Insulin helps the cells take in glucose from the bloodstream.
Below are the 4 steps our body do to [...]

When IGNORANCE is not a Bliss

According to a Singapore Health Survey conducted in 2004, Diabetes affects about 1 out of 12 people in the population and out the figure on Prediabetes as close to 1 out of 8.  And the bad news are, more than half of the diabetics and prediabetics in Singapore do not know they have diabetes which is commonly known as [...]

What are the Symptoms of Hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycemia)?

Low blood glucose / sugar level or Hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycemia) can happen to anybody, whether you are suffering from diabetes, prediabetes or non-diabetic so it will be good to understand this condition.  If you experienced one of more of the following symptoms, you could be suffering from Hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycemia):

giddiness
hunger
sweating
shaking
irritable
confusion
headache
fast heartbeat
impaired vision
fatigue
anxious / nervousness
trouble speaking

What do should do [...]

What? Blood glucose BG (sugar) level too low? It’s Hypoglycaemia (Hypoglycemia)

Most people only knows that if a person suffers from diabetes or prediabetes, it means that a person is suffering from high blood glucose BG / sugar level or Hyperglycaemia (Hyperglycemia).  This is only one side of the coin, diabetics and prediabetes actually can suffer from another condition known as Hypoglycemia (Hypoglycaemia).
What is Hypoglycemia?
Hypoglycemia is the [...]