Seamaty offers tips for staying healthy through the winter with diabetes

First, pay attention to keeping warm and preventing cold. The cold will stimulate the sympathetic nerves and increase the level of catecholamines in the body, which will lead to increased blood sugar and platelet aggregation, resulting in the formation of blood clots; in addition, the cold will also cause vasoconstriction to increase blood pressure and coronary artery spasm, leading to cerebral hemorrhage, heart attack, and other serious complications.

Second, control your appetite, eat fewer and more meals. Many people choose to protect themselves from the cold by eating more, which can easily cause fluctuations in blood sugar levels and can bring harm to the body. Therefore, diabetic patients must adhere to eating fewer and more meals.

Third, adhere to exercise, can choose indoor exercise. In order to protect against the cold, we need to strengthen exercise, diabetic patients should give priority to indoor activities such as yoga, Tai Chi, or do some relatively easy housework to achieve the purpose of the exercise.

Fourth, pay attention to moisturizing, to prevent dry skin. Winter air is dry, diabetic patients in the winter nerve endings are more likely to be stimulated, which leads to itchy skin. Once a diabetic can't resist scratching and accidentally scratching the skin, his wounds will be less likely to heal.

Fifth, heating needs to be careful to avoid burns. As diabetic patients are often accompanied by neuropathy, making them insensitive to temperature. Therefore, winter heating is easy to be scalded. Therefore, when heating, should avoid excessive temperature, and do not use heating products directly in contact with the skin. In addition, the water temperature when soaking feet is also best measured before soaking, soaking time should not exceed 30 minutes.

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