Are you aware that drinking alcohol often can cause some changes in the body of a diabetic patient? Diabetes is a disease that arises when the blood sugar level becomes unregulated leading to excessive increase or lowering of the blood sugar level. This often happens due to insulin issues or the body not being able to utilize the insulin for sugar level regulation.
In this article in line with a publication on Mayo Clinic, we are going to have a look at what drinking alcohol often can do to a diabetic patient. Just sit tight and enjoy this article while learning something new.
What Does Drinking Alcohol Often Do to Diabetic Patients?
Research has shown that drinking alcohol often may have some unpredictable effects on your blood sugar level. How this happens is that alcohol makes it much harder for you to know when you're having low blood sugar symptoms thus you may not even know till you fall into a diabetic coma.
Diabetic coma is a life-threatening complication of diabetes that should be taken very seriously because it can cause brain damage in some cases. So for your own good, try as much as possible to avoid alcohol while suffering from diabetes in order to be aware of the changes going on in your body.
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