Stress and diabetes...

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Stress is an inevitable accompaniment of modern life.As most of us know, stress can create havoc in our personal life.It can cause or worsen a hell lot of diseases.But have you ever thought Diabetes is one among them?Those who haven't, this one is for you people.

Diabetes Mellitus (popularly known as high blood sugar) can be due to a lack of insulin in the blood level or the resistance to insulin or the presence of an excess of counter regulatory hormones like Cortisol,Adrenaline,Glucagon and Growth hormone.Severe stress can cause an increase in the blood levels of the latter thereby resulting in Diabetes.Studies have been done worldwide substantiating this fact.This makes it extremely important to detect high stress levels in a diabetic patient,since blood sugar will come down only if stress is relieved.Have you got a patient with un explained high blood sugars,or with un controlled levels despite optimum use of diet,tablets and insulin,think of severe stress..(it may explain the condition).

The  ability to cope with stress depends on the individual and it all depends on how he/she reacts to it.It's also important not to resort to a band-aid approach when dealing with stress.(that's try only treating the symptoms avoiding finding out the root cause for it).Stress management techniques,diet,exercise,meditation,bio-feed back,yoga and other relaxation therapy will help in over coming stress..

for those who wonder why i am posting an article related to diabetes,november 14 th is the  world diabetes day.