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<blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1889849" data-attributes="member: 468714"><p>Hi [USER=487242]@Sandar[/USER], Welcome. Chest infections are the bane of us all. I hope you recover soon.</p><p>Any stress to our body causes release of the body's stress manager (in office terms this is the Public Security and Damage Control Officer in charge).</p><p>Cortisol readies the body to deal with a threat, mobilises energy and resources such as the body's immune system to deal with the threat recognised as a Chest Infection.</p><p>Cortisol's actions contradict that of insulin (which is putting things into cells rather than mobilising cells to expend energy and release things). So more insulin is required to keep the blood sugar under control than usual. Fine if your pancreas is working automatically. Otherwise blood sugars rise, TIDs increase their insulin, T2Ds may have been instructed to increase medication, depending on the medication etc. Blood sugar measurement is what I use to gauge how well or not I am travelling. If getting to 16mmol/l (290 mg/DL) or above I am on the phone to my doctor or DN.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kitedoc, post: 1889849, member: 468714"] Hi [USER=487242]@Sandar[/USER], Welcome. Chest infections are the bane of us all. I hope you recover soon. Any stress to our body causes release of the body's stress manager (in office terms this is the Public Security and Damage Control Officer in charge). Cortisol readies the body to deal with a threat, mobilises energy and resources such as the body's immune system to deal with the threat recognised as a Chest Infection. Cortisol's actions contradict that of insulin (which is putting things into cells rather than mobilising cells to expend energy and release things). So more insulin is required to keep the blood sugar under control than usual. Fine if your pancreas is working automatically. Otherwise blood sugars rise, TIDs increase their insulin, T2Ds may have been instructed to increase medication, depending on the medication etc. Blood sugar measurement is what I use to gauge how well or not I am travelling. If getting to 16mmol/l (290 mg/DL) or above I am on the phone to my doctor or DN. [/QUOTE]
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