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Alcohol and carbohydrate metabolism - Due to the nature of certain hormones impact the risk of hypoglycemic complications occurs only a few hours later. What can be fraught with alcohol in diabetes?

To answer this question should learn the basics of carbohydrate metabolism:
•    The dietary carbohydrates come,
•    During digestion, they are converted to glucose
•    Formed part of the glucose enters the blood,
•    Part of the glucose enters the liver, where glycogen is formed,
•    Namely glycogen maintains an optimal level of glucose in the blood, as a kind of "spare" substance.

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Glass of wine Risk of alcohol is that alcohol can for a long period (approximately 48 hours) tuned to block active biochemical mechanism - is stored in reserve in case the glucose cannot enter the blood. If during this period the person also uses drugs, lowering blood sugar, there may be a severe hypoglycemia, and even coma. There are also medical statistics showing that the most common cause of hypoglycemia in diabetes - is alcohol intake. Also important is the fact that such hypoglycemia persist injection of glucagon. Help in the event of such a state can only fast utilizable carbohydrates - juice or sweet tea or same intravenous glucose. It is clear that replacing medication alcohol per its properties in any case impossible.

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