Blood sugar spikes are caused when a simple sugar known as glucose builds up in your bloodstream. For people with diabetes, this happens because of the body’s inability to properly use glucose.
Overview
Most of the food you eat is broken down into glucose. Your body needs glucose because it’s the primary fuel that makes your muscles, organs, and brain work properly. But glucose can’t be used as fuel until it enters your cells.
Insulin, a hormone produced by your pancreas, unlocks cells so that glucose can enter them. Without insulin, glucose keeps floating around in your bloodstream with nowhere to go, becoming increasingly more concentrated over time.
When glucose builds up in your bloodstream, your blood glucose (blood sugar) levels rise. Long term, this causes damage to organs, nerves, and blood vessels.
Blood sugar spikes occur in people with PREDIABETES diabetes because they’re unable to use insulin effectively.
Blood sugar spike symptoms
Symptoms of a blood sugar spike IN PREDIABETES
- fatigue
- blurred vision
- headache
- anxiety
- mood changes
- palpitations
Diagnosis
This could be diagnosed by checking the blood sugars when symptomatic
Treatment
This is by a change in the diet avoid a high carb diet and having low glycemic foods
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