High Blood Sugar, Diabetes, Sleep Problem

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The answer is yes. High blood sugar level can affect normal sleep. In your case, do not worry first because worry might be one reason of your poor sleep. High blood sugar does not mean you must have diabetes. You need to take related test to make clear weather you have diabetic disease or not.

If you do not have diabetes, then you need to adjust your daily diets. Besides, stop worrying so that your sleep quality will be improved.

If you have diabetes, you need early and proper treatment because diabetes patients often have sleep disorder and there are various reasons.

Due to poorly controlled blood glucose level, diabetes patients often have thirst, polydipsia, increased urination, frequent urination especially at nights. All these will affect patients’ sleep quality.

Mental factors such as worries and anxiety and heavy mental burdens especially in case of complications of diabetes, patients will have difficulty falling into sleep.

Diabetes can cause peripheral neuropathy, cause skin itching, abdominal distention.

Obese patients with type 2 diabetes are susceptible to frequent sleep apnea syndrome and affect their sleep.

How to improve sleep quality for diabetes?

To improve sleep quality, diabetes patients should first bring their high blood sugar level well under control and then seek proper and timely prevention and treatment to deal with complications of high blood sugar. As for other discomforts and symptoms such as itching skin, pain, high blood pressure, mental disorder, symptomatic treatments should be received.

It is recommended that diabetes patients should adhere to scientific timing. Do not stay up too late and it is better that they go to sleep before 10pm and get up between 6-8am the next day.