It’s important to know how to manage your diabetes when you’re ill.
Some people will know this as diabetes sick day rules.
Illness and infection, as well as other forms of stress, can raise your blood glucose (sugar) levels to dangerously high levels. As part of the body’s defence mechanism for fighting illness and infection, more glucose is released into the blood stream. This can happen even if you’re off your food or eating less than usual.
People who don’t have diabetes just produce more insulin to cope. But when you’ve got diabetes, your body can’t do this.
See below how to manage your diabetes when poorly.
