Diabetes and bacterial lung infections

[Indy51]

Diabetes is associated with increased frequency of hospitalisation due to bacterial lung infection. This article goes into quite a lot of detail about the reasons why:

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep27636

 

[zand]

Thank you for posting this.

 

[Brunneria]

The big clue I had that my blood glucose had reached diabetic levels was a chest infection.
Started with a standard cough/cold. Went down to my chest, and stayed for 6 weeks as I dragged myself around feeling like death.
Antibiotics sorted it, but shortly after, I found out that my blood glucose levels had risen.

 

[UserABC2021]

Well, that's a bu... downer. I've got COPD as well as diabetes, so chest infections are not my friend at the best of times.

 

[Tabbyjoolz]

That's interesting. A few months before I was diagnosed I was having frequent chest infections and put it down to smoking, so I quit. Just as well I did, because when I was diagnosed I was relieved that at least I wouldn't get a lecture on smoking.

Since diagnosis (and quitting smoking two years ago) I have had no more chest infections.

 

[NicoleC1971]

Maybe I did not read enough of the paper but does it explain whether the direction of this? That is, is it the presence of an infection that caused a higher blood glucose or the presence of extra glucose that caused the rapid growth of the bacteria?