Is blood sugar 11.6 after a meal high? Timely control is very important

If the blood sugar level after a meal exceeds 11.1, it is already very dangerous and means you have diabetes. Moreover, long-term high blood sugar level after meals is particularly harmful to the body of diabetics. Therefore, you should pay special attention to your diet, avoid overeating, and exercise more often.

1. What should you pay attention to if your blood sugar is high after a meal?

1. Do not overeat, have a regular life, chew your food slowly, eat more vegetables, and try not to eat foods high in glucose and sucrose in a short period of time. This can prevent blood sugar from rising rapidly in a short period of time and help protect pancreatic function. Especially those with a family history of diabetes must remember this!

2. Have regular sex life to prevent infectious diseases; do not take excessive amounts of antibiotics. Some viral infections and overdose of antibiotics can induce diabetes.

3. Friends with abnormal glucose tolerance or a family history of diabetes can prevent the occurrence of diabetes to the greatest extent possible: take nicotinamide, Vb1, Vb6, and methyl Vb12 (Mecobalamin) for three months each year to enhance pancreatic function; take Vc and Ve for half a month when the seasons change, and the dosage should be large, which can improve self-immunity and eliminate free radicals. (You can also inject Vb12 intramuscularly twice a year, two weeks each time, one injection per day.)

2. What is the reason for high blood sugar after meal?

1. Decreased insulin sensitivity

For diabetic patients, defective insulin secretion function of β cells or decreased insulin sensitivity results in inhibition of liver glucose production and weakened muscle glucose uptake ability, causing irregular fluctuations in circulating blood glucose absorption after food digestion, thus forming instantaneous blood glucose spikes and increased and prolonged postprandial peak levels, which increases the amplitude of blood glucose fluctuations.

2. Patients use medication improperly

Some patients with type 2 diabetes have obvious obesity and insulin resistance, but they have been using long-acting insulin secretagogues. Since these drugs take a long time to take effect, they cannot effectively improve the early phase insulin secretion of diabetes and reduce insulin resistance, so it is often difficult to control postprandial blood sugar. Some patients mainly use medium- and long-acting insulin when using insulin, rather than combining it with short-acting or ultra-short-acting insulin that has a fast onset of action, so their blood sugar levels after meals are prone to being high.

3. Improper diet

Some patients like to drink porridge for breakfast. Since porridge is heated for a long time, starch is easily dissolved in water. After eating, it can come into contact with digestive juice extensively and is easily absorbed. In addition, porridge is in a semi-fluid state, and the stomach emptying time after eating is relatively short. Therefore, eating porridge for breakfast is more likely to increase postprandial blood sugar than eating staple food.

4. Lack of monitoring of blood sugar after meals

When monitoring their blood sugar, most patients tend to only pay attention to fasting blood sugar and rarely monitor postprandial blood sugar. Due to the lack of monitoring of postprandial blood sugar, there are few measures taken to address postprandial high blood sugar, such as controlling diet and exercising.