Does otherwise stable sugar levels rise when you get a cold or flu??
Hi Folks! Hope you had a good holiday.
My wife and I are 50 something. She is borderline Type 2. As you already know, I'm a definite Type 2. Both of us in control with low carb diet and I'm on Metformin as well. So, all of a sudden the wife gets a raging cold she is beating back and I'm catching what she has. Checked our sugar as usual. I shot up to an unprecedented 240, she shot up to 271 ! Real scary cause we are being good. Gotta be the cold? But why? What is the physiology and chemistry doing to influence the body to raise this sugar from a cold?
Thanks,
Carl & Karen
P.S. Not my main question but as an after thought would it hurt her to slip her one of my Metformin to get her lower or because she doesnt take Metformin just wait till the cold subsides to see if the sugar level changes by itself?
NBH-
Hello! I had a great holiday, hope you and the Mrs. did too! I am sorry Mrs. NBH is suffering from a cold. When you have a cold it causes stress to your body. There are hormones that are released and those hormones can fight the cold but is it is a lot harder for your body to use insulin in the way it should be use. Medication can also cause blood sugar to rise.
Mr. NBH, please do not share your medication with your wife. It's againist the law. Let her Physician make the call when it comes to presciption mediciations. If her blood sugar will not go down you should call her physician. I hope Mrs. NBH feel's better soon.
Cherise
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