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Do infections (colds) raise BG ?

Sam50

Sam50

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Apologies if this has been raised before but.....would fighting a cold raise your BG ?

Hubby and I had a very chilled week last week sunning ourselves in the south of France. Lots of walking and healthy eating ( salads and grilled meats, all very low carb) Hubby allowed himself one beer on his birthday :)

Return journey home on Friday was rather stressful with flight delays etc and our son had kindly ordered us takeaway pizza on our return (he meant well) Hubby then came down with a streaming cold. Checked his BG post eating lunch(omelette) today and it was 14 !! ( he had been around 8.5-9 before going on hols)

am wondering whether it's because he is fighting an infection and still adjusting from the Friday carb interlude.

Thoughts ?
 
Indeed, infections cause a change in bg levels. There are many variables, infection, stress, a change in the weather and sleep disturbance as well as what we eat. Hope he gets better soon and sees a return to better bg levels.
 
There are many things which can affect BG: food, stress, weather, illness, drugs, ...
Sounds as if, over the last week your hubby has had a hat-trick of these so very likely to have contributed to his high BG.
 
Sam50 said:
Apologies if this has been raised before but.....would fighting a cold raise your BG ?

Hubby and I had a very chilled week last week sunning ourselves in the south of France. Lots of walking and healthy eating ( salads and grilled meats, all very low carb) Hubby allowed himself one beer on his birthday :)

Return journey home on Friday was rather stressful with flight delays etc and our son had kindly ordered us takeaway pizza on our return (he meant well) Hubby then came down with a streaming cold. Checked his BG post eating lunch(omelette) today and it was 14 !! ( he had been around 8.5-9 before going on hols)

am wondering whether it's because he is fighting an infection and still adjusting from the Friday carb interlude.

Thoughts ?
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The pizza?
I recently had bronchitis. Bs were higher but seems it could have been caused by non stop coughing during the night. Then of course lack of sleep. The coughing was EXHAUSTING. once I got an inhaler and tamed the coughing bs returned to normal.

Did you repeat the test after hand washing again? Sometimes meters just flip out.
 
Infections can mess with ur BG yep. Actually I find that everything does...
 
Guzzler said:
Indeed, infections cause a change in bg levels. There are many variables, infection, stress, a change in the weather and sleep disturbance as well as what we eat. Hope he gets better soon and sees a return to better bg levels.
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thanks Guzzler that kind of confirms what I was thinking.Hopefully things will settle down once he is over his cold. He certainly had a lot more energy on hols last week- I was hard pushed to keep up with him striding up those hills !
 
Kristin251 said:
The pizza?
I recently had bronchitis. Bs were higher but seems it could have been caused by non stop coughing during the night. Then of course lack of sleep. The coughing was EXHAUSTING. once I got an inhaler and tamed the coughing bs returned to normal.

Did you repeat the test after hand washing again? Sometimes meters just flip out.
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Bronchitis is horrid and I know that it raises BP so wouldn't be surprised if coughing also affected BS- glad you got an inhaler. Yes I'm sure the Friday night pizza didn't help although after our flight delay it was much enjoyed !
 
Sam50 said:
Apologies if this has been raised before but.....would fighting a cold raise your BG ?

Hubby and I had a very chilled week last week sunning ourselves in the south of France. Lots of walking and healthy eating ( salads and grilled meats, all very low carb) Hubby allowed himself one beer on his birthday :)

Return journey home on Friday was rather stressful with flight delays etc and our son had kindly ordered us takeaway pizza on our return (he meant well) Hubby then came down with a streaming cold. Checked his BG post eating lunch(omelette) today and it was 14 !! ( he had been around 8.5-9 before going on hols)

am wondering whether it's because he is fighting an infection and still adjusting from the Friday carb interlude.

Thoughts ?
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Just a thought but inflammation in the body due to things like infections will increase the white cell blood count, and also the Leucocytes, and this will alter the hematocrit value of your blood plasma. Now most bgl meters are sensitive to the hematocrit value, and this may explain why bgl tends to rise when fighting an infection.
 
If I get a cold or have anything wrong with me for that matter(ear infection for example) my bg goes through the roof. Also stress raises it too
 
just a quick update to what I posted earlier in the week. Hubby's BG has come down significantly as his cold improved ( he has since passed that lurgy onto me-groan !) and we also discovered that he had been using the settings on his BG monitor incorrectly *rolls eyes*. When he initially had his blood tests on diagnosis he had been suffering from an infection (shingles) for a number of weeks which we believe affected his HBA1C so it will be interesting in October to see exactly what his levels have dropped down to.....

you live and learn as they say and I did suggest reading the instructions FIRST on the BG monitor heigh ho !
 
I had a tooth out today and it wasn't an easy extraction. My Libre measured 6. afterwards. It hasn't made it up to 6 in weeks so I'm putting it down to stress of tooth extraction.
 
woodywhippet61 said:
I had a tooth out today and it wasn't an easy extraction. My Libre measured 6. afterwards. It hasn't made it up to 6 in weeks so I'm putting it down to stress of tooth extraction.
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ouch !! am sure that stress and pain wouldn't have helped with your BG levels. wishing you a speedy recovery x
 
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