Blood Sugar Levels During Fever

is the name used to describe a metabolic condition of having higher than normal blood sugar levels. There are different reasons why people get high blood glucose levels and so a number of different types of diabetes exist.

Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies.

When you have diabetes, your body either doesn’t make enough insulin or can’t use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugars to build up in the blood resulting in varying .

Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations as well as affecting your  habits.

In the UK, diabetes affects approximately 2.8 million people. More than 1 million people are thought to have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. There are 2 main types of diabetes:

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