Hand washing and water temperature

[hankjam]

You would have thought that after nearly 10 years of monitoring my BG I would have figured this out.

We recently had a new boiler installed. Good. The hitch is that it takes quite sometime for warm water to come out of the hot tap and recently I have been rinsing my hands in cool to tepid water and my FBG have been around 5.2, which is where I like it.

This morning it was 5.1.
I did some exercises, washed my hands and rinsed in pretty warm water and got 6.2 and 6.3.
Went and washed my hands and rinsed in cold water and got 5.3.

This is all very anecdotal.

My question is: how important is water temperature for rinsing hands for influencing BG?

Many thanks for reading this far.

 

[Lainie71]

You would have thought that after nearly 10 years of monitoring my BG I would have figured this out.

We recently had a new boiler installed. Good. The hitch is that it takes quite sometime for warm water to come out of the hot tap and recently I have been rinsing my hands in cool to tepid water and my FBG have been around 5.2, which is where I like it.

This morning it was 5.1.
I did some exercises, washed my hands and rinsed in pretty warm water and got 6.2 and 6.3.
Went and washed my hands and rinsed in cold water and got 5.3.

This is all very anecdotal.

My question is: how important is water temperature for rinsing hands for influencing BG?

Many thanks for reading this far.

Quite important by the sounds of things! Not sure to be honest but I am going to experiment and see if I get the same.

 

[Cluso]

Its winter, I am using a blow dryer in order to be able to obtain a minor blood sample... this avoids water contamination.

Could you please keep posting for us to understand if this is in fact a thing and not just a one time issue!

Are you sure you have no humidity left in your hands that may dilute the blood once it comes out?

 

[Cluso]

You would have thought that after nearly 10 years of monitoring my BG I would have figured this out.

We recently had a new boiler installed. Good. The hitch is that it takes quite sometime for warm water to come out of the hot tap and recently I have been rinsing my hands in cool to tepid water and my FBG have been around 5.2, which is where I like it.

This morning it was 5.1.
I did some exercises, washed my hands and rinsed in pretty warm water and got 6.2 and 6.3.
Went and washed my hands and rinsed in cold water and got 5.3.

This is all very anecdotal.

My question is: how important is water temperature for rinsing hands for influencing BG?

Many thanks for reading this far.

This link may help explain it?

Hot water immersion acutely increases postprandial glucose concentrations - PubMed

Chronic hot water immersion (HWI) confers health benefits, including a reduction in fasting blood glucose concentration. Here we investigate acute glycemic control immediately after HWI. Ten participants (age: 25 ± 6 years, body mass: 84 ± 14 kg, height 1.85 ± 0.09 m) were immersed in water...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov