As you may be aware, diabetic neuropathy can occur at any random moment. While it is often difficult to control triggers that set it off, there are some lifestyle changes that may be of some help. Unfortunately, if you have extensive nerve damage from diabetes, it can take months, or even years for your central nervous system to begin to heal.
That said, if you manage your sugar levels carefully, you stand an excellent chance of preventing and avoiding flare ups of diabetic neuropathy. As an added bonus, keeping control of your blood glucose levels will also ensure that other organs in your body remain healthy and in good condition.
Tight Control of Blood Glucose Levels
If you follow a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise, you should be able to keep your fasting and pre-meal blood sugar levels at or below 130. It is also very important to monitor peaks that occur after you eat. Depending on the duration, you may need to think about adjusting insulin levels as well as take other steps to try to keep these numbers below 180. You should also strive to prevent peaks from lasting more than 2 hours. Breaking up your meals and strategic exercise sessions can help you achieve this goal.
Getting Enough Exercise
When it comes to managing diabetic neuropathy, adequate exercise is absolutely necessary. Among other things, exercising will help to stimulate circulation, which will help to carry away toxins, as well as to deliver increased amounts of oxygen and nutrients to your cells. Since the nervous system has already been damaged by excess sugar amounts, you may not sense when your muscles begin to grow stiff from poor circulation. This, in turn can easily lead to the kinds of tissue damage that will lead to transient pains. Once these flare into a full blown case of neuropathy, it will be very hard to pinpoint the cause.
B-Complex Vitamins
Even though the sheath around nerve tissue does not conduct electricity, it is absolutely vital for good neural health. In most cases, this myelin sheath is often attacked by excessive levels of glucose in the blood. On the other hand, the B Vitamins especially B-6 can help the myelin sheath restore a bit faster. If you are having a difficult time coping with diabetic neuropathy, adding these vitamins to your diet may be of some help.
Avoiding Neurotoxins
Without question, avoiding pesticides, herbicides, and other neurotoxins will be of immense benefit. These chemicals will place an added burden on your nervous system. When combined with poorly controlled blood glucose levels, it may be just enough to cause a flare up. To make matters worse, if you have hidden nerve damage that affects digestion or cardiac function, these chemicals may kill you, if the effects all line up the right way.
Many people do not realize they are diabetic until a significant amount of damage has been done to the nervous system. By this time, the pain caused by nerve damage may well set you on a path where you will need to learn how to control your blood sugar levels. While it may not be easy, following a few simple steps may help you reduce, or even prevent, future flare ups.
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