Is drinking harmful to the health of diabetics? Must people who are addicted to drinking alcohol quit drinking after suffering from diabetes? If they are allowed to drink, what problems need to be paid attention to? Can diabetics drink?
We know that heavy drinking can lead to alcoholism (commonly known as' drunkenness'), and for diabetics, the harm is even greater.
(1) Fasting drinking is prone to hypoglycemia. Alcohol can inhibit the liver's gluconeogenesis and glycolysis reaction, damage the automatic regulation mechanism of blood glucose, and inhibit the decomposition and excretion of hypoglycemic drugs. Therefore, fasting drinking can easily lead to hypoglycemia, especially for patients treated with oral sulfonylurea hypoglycemic drugs or insulin injection.
(2) Drinking often disrupts the normal diet (satiety or hunger) and medication of diabetic patients, leading to blood glucose fluctuations and out of control. For example, some patients eat a lot of food while drinking, because alcohol itself contains higher calories, which is bound to cause excessive total calorie intake, resulting in increased blood sugar.
(3) Excessive drinking can cause lipid metabolism disorder, leading to fatty liver. Drinking can increase the blood lipid (mainly triglyceride and low density lipoprotein), accelerate the synthesis and accumulation of fat in the liver, and lead to fatty liver and even cirrhosis. In addition, the increase of blood lipid can promote the hardening of vascular wall.
(4) Ethanol can directly damage the pancreas, making the original damaged pancreatic function suffer further damage.
(5) Diabetic patients are often accompanied by hyperuricemia. Drinking alcohol can further increase blood uric acid, which is easy to induce or aggravate gout.
(6) Excessive drinking in patients with diabetes can cause alcoholic ketoacidosis, serious and even life-threatening.
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