Keys to success for controlling your blood sugar
1. Eat three meals a day, no more than six hours apart.
2. Try to eat at regular times (even on days when you have dialysis). If you can’t eat a meal, make sure you have suitable snacks available.
3. Avoid simple sugars and sweets such as sugar, regular pop (soda, soft drinks), sweet desserts, candies, jam, and honey. Try using sugar substitutes in your recipes.
4. Do some physical activity each day.
5. Use your glucose meter as directed by your doctor or diabetes team to monitor how your diet and medications affect your blood glucose level throughout the day.
6. Maintain your blood sugar in the range recommended by your doctor and/or diabetes team.
1. Eat three meals a day, no more than six hours apart.
2. Try to eat at regular times (even on days when you have dialysis). If you can’t eat a meal, make sure you have suitable snacks available.
3. Avoid simple sugars and sweets such as sugar, regular pop (soda, soft drinks), sweet desserts, candies, jam, and honey. Try using sugar substitutes in your recipes.
4. Do some physical activity each day.
5. Use your glucose meter as directed by your doctor or diabetes team to monitor how your diet and medications affect your blood glucose level throughout the day.
6. Maintain your blood sugar in the range recommended by your doctor and/or diabetes team.
- With CKD, you are at increased risk of low blood sugar. The doctor who takes care of your diabetes may need to decrease your insulin (or other hypoglycemic agent) on a regular basis.
- You should report repeated low blood sugar reactions to your doctor.
- If you are on dialysis, controlling your blood sugar can help to decrease thirst and control fluid intake. With a kidney transplant and anti-rejection medications, you may need higher doses of insulin (or other hypoglycemic agent). Your doctor will help you adjust these medications.
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