Diabetes and Alcohol

This may be a tad more of a serious post than what I normally post up. But it's something that I think needs saying.

It's about alcohol and diabetes. There are some people out there who will turn around and say never ever drink alcohol if you're diabetic, it's bad and they'll try and scare you with it. I guess being diabetic you have to be especially careful when drinking alcohol (I'll explain why in a second) but that doesn't mean that you have to toally ignore it-everything in moderation, even when I was on the human mixtard regime I still ate sweets I just didn't eat them all the time.

The reason as diabetics we have to be more cautious is because when consuming alcohol the liver stops the production of glucose in order to help rid the body of the toxins in the drink. Due to this you may find blood sugars drop (this surprised me at first as alcohol is full of suagr and I expected it to rise). But this doesn't in any way shape or form mean that you should never drink, it's ok as long as you keep checking blood sugars, and ensure that if you are drinking to eat something aswell.

I'm not keen on drink. But I have to admit even I had some last night, and I'm fine this morning, my friends who were around me kept telling me to check my sugars, though I would have done it even if they had not told me, but I'm fine now barring a headache and that's my own fault. Diabetes should not make it so that you have to stay away from everything, what sort of a life would that be? No, diabetes just means that while you can have the same things eveyone else is having, you maybe just need to be a litle bit more responsible and keep checking sugars, but don't deny yourself theses things, we cannot live like that.

So if you want a drink with friends- I'd say go for it! But also just remember to keep checking, it's easy enough to control but not if you don't know what's going on with it.

Keep Smiling :)
Love, Tutti-Frutti
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