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Eating lots of sugar with type 2 diabetes – what will eventually happen if you do that?
My grandma has type 2 diabetes and she has dementia. She eats lots of food with sugar in them, she has cakes, cookies, french bread, wine(she adds sugar to it), candy, chicken(which she’ll keep eating for about 4-6weeks) etc. This has been her diet for about a year or two.. Because of her dementia she’ll claim that the cake or cookie she’s eating are diabetic and if you try to argue with her it’ll be completely pointless. So changing her diet.. won’t happen. (Her doctor doesn’t care either and she’ll never change doctors so)
The question I’m wondering is, why hasn’t anything happened to her? Will anything eventually happen to her because of her eating all this sugar?
Hi, yes, unfortunately her blood sugar levels will remain elevated, and since her pancreas no longer produces insulin, she will need her blood sugar checked more frequently and will require more insulin.
If her blood sugar levels remain high, with no intervention, she will develop, numbness in her extremeties, (peripheral neuropathy), kidney shut down (requiring dialysis) blindness, and coronary artery disease. All this is PREVENTABLE!
Don’t allow sweets into the house, monitor her blood sugars,
and help her live longer.
Let me know if you need any more assistance. The American Diabetic Association also has tons of information of their website.
Leigh
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