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How to Lower My 83-Year-Old Diabetic Mother's High Blood Sugar?

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Question by Dinesh on May 30, 2024Hindi

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Dear Doctor my mother who is 83 year old, is type2 Diabetic since more than 10 years. Her fasting blood glucose is 109 mg and post meals is 185 mg. Which is considered very high. Kindly let us know how to come down it. She maintain healthy life style

Ans: The blood sugar levels and how tight control should be done is also influenced by age.
Her fasting blood sugar levels are acceptable. Post meal (2 hrs after the meal) can be in range of 70 to 180 mg%. Therefore, she is doing largely fine on that also. You can reduce post meal sugar level by some dietary modifications and cutting down on sugary and carbohydrate meals. Also, adding salads and fibers would also help.
It would be helpful to get to know her HbA1c levels so, I would get a sense of her overall sugar control.

Dr Chandrakant Lahariya
Centre for Health: The Specialty Practice,
New Delhi

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