Is diabetics of influenza dangerous?

Influenza is an acute viral infection with manifestations such as headache, muscle pain, fever, sore throat, runny nose, fatigue, and prolonged cough. Some people also have digestive disorders that cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea. The influenza is often slightly progressive so patients can recover themselves for about 2-7 days. Children, pregnant women, elderly people, people with flu disease can get worse.

Diabetes like your mother in the flu will be more dangerous than normal people due to unstable blood sugar, which can cause many complications such as pneumonia, blood infections …. The flu virus causes the body to release hormones such as adrenaline, cortisol, reducing the effectiveness of insulin, leading to hyperglycemia. When infected with flu, patients are tired, anorexia, high risk of hypoglycemia. These factors make it difficult for patients to control blood sugar.

In case of unfortunate influenza, your mother needs to regularly check blood sugar at home or the nearest medical facility, eat enough meals, enough quality, can be changed to eating porridge, milk, fruit suitable. Patients with diabetes need to drink plenty of water to limit dehydration, maintain a doctor’s treatment regimen, absolutely do not increase, decrease the dose or arbitrarily stop the drug.

If your mother appears symptoms such as vomiting or diarrhea, high fever above 38 degrees Celsius, shortness of breath, blood sugar levels higher than 180 mg/dl or lower than 70 mg/dL, need to go to the medical facility immediately for timely inspection and treatment. To prevent influenza, she should have an annual influenza vaccine, limiting contact with people who are coughing or sneezing, hand washing regularly, wearing a mask when coming to public places.