Take care of yourself when you are sick, it can make your blood-glucose go too high.
Sick day Diabetes Tips
- Check your blood-glucose level every four hours and note down the reading.
- Keep taking your diabetes medicines, even if you cannot keep food down.
- Drink at least one cup of water or other calorie-free, caffeine-free liquid every hour while you are awake.
- If you cannot eat your usual food, try drinking juice or eating crackers, ice pop, or soup, because you still need calories. In addition, if you cannot eat enough, you increase your risk of low blood-glucose, also called hypoglycemia.
- In people with type 1 diabetes, when blood-glucose is high, the body produces ketones. Ketones can make you sick. Test your urine or blood for ketones if
- o your blood-glucose is above 240
- o you can’t keep food or liquids down.
Urgent symptoms - immediately call healthy care provider.
- your blood-glucose has been above 240 for longer than a day
- you have ketones
- you feel sleepier than usual
- you have trouble breathing
- you can’t think clearly
- you throw up more than once
- you’ve had diarrhea for more than six hours