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<blockquote data-quote="Riesenburg" data-source="post: 389451" data-attributes="member: 41402"><p>Hi Tony,</p><p></p><p>Oh my if I could have a word with that nurse she would get an earful! High blood sugars should be avoided like the plague (for want of a better term). The odd one here or there is acceptable but not on a regular basis. This is a field which I am studying at the moment with respect to how it impacts our brains and memory, high sugars cause brain cell death, white matter deterioration (McCall 2005) and cause impairment of the CNS (central nervous system) (McCall 1992). The studies are quite rare but in type 2s it has been found that even 20mins of hyperglyceamia caused deterioration of cognitive functioning (Sommerfiled, Deary and Frier, 2004) and both highs as well as lows cause a reduction of neural dendrites and synaptic connections (Malone et al, 2008).</p><p></p><p>Basically putting all the scientific language aside high sugars will impair brain functioning, cognition and will cause damage to the white matter and grey matter. In addition to that there is as mentioned a risk of ketosis. </p><p></p><p>If you need full references for the studies I mentioned do let me know happy to provide them. </p><p></p><p>Nurses and GPs are just lack the necessary knowledge to deal with type 1s properly. They often just panic about the hypos and ignore the hypers because the hypos have an immediate life threatening outcome. In terms of brain damage (and let's be honest we all want our brains in their best possible state!) the hypers are more dangerous since the brain can recover from mild hypos within about 30mins but the hypers seem to cause long term if not permanent damage.</p><p></p><p>Hope that answers your question,</p><p>Frankie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Riesenburg, post: 389451, member: 41402"] Hi Tony, Oh my if I could have a word with that nurse she would get an earful! High blood sugars should be avoided like the plague (for want of a better term). The odd one here or there is acceptable but not on a regular basis. This is a field which I am studying at the moment with respect to how it impacts our brains and memory, high sugars cause brain cell death, white matter deterioration (McCall 2005) and cause impairment of the CNS (central nervous system) (McCall 1992). The studies are quite rare but in type 2s it has been found that even 20mins of hyperglyceamia caused deterioration of cognitive functioning (Sommerfiled, Deary and Frier, 2004) and both highs as well as lows cause a reduction of neural dendrites and synaptic connections (Malone et al, 2008). Basically putting all the scientific language aside high sugars will impair brain functioning, cognition and will cause damage to the white matter and grey matter. In addition to that there is as mentioned a risk of ketosis. If you need full references for the studies I mentioned do let me know happy to provide them. Nurses and GPs are just lack the necessary knowledge to deal with type 1s properly. They often just panic about the hypos and ignore the hypers because the hypos have an immediate life threatening outcome. In terms of brain damage (and let's be honest we all want our brains in their best possible state!) the hypers are more dangerous since the brain can recover from mild hypos within about 30mins but the hypers seem to cause long term if not permanent damage. Hope that answers your question, Frankie [/QUOTE]
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