How does drinking alcohol effect blood sugar levels?

Answer 1

Alcohol generally lowers a type I diabetic's blood sugar.

Answer: This is not necessarily true. if the alcohol your drinking has alot of sugar in it, it is dangerouse for type 2 diabetics as their blood sugar will rise too much and they may go into a diabetic ketoacidosis, basically a coma. If a type one has alcohol, they will need to make sure they have had a meal before hand, and type one's usually suffer from low blood sugar so they will need to be careful as a low blood sugar is worse than a high one.

Answer 2

Alcohol is metabolized in the liver first by alcohol dehydrogenase to acetylaldehyde and with aldehyde dehydrogenase to acetic acid. This reaction "takes precedence" to the release of glucose so that alcohol can have the temporary result of lowered glucose levels, even though that sounds somewhat counter intuitive.

Answer 3

When a person is diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus there should essentially be change in the lifestyle. The person has to change the way he or she eats and lives his or her life. This is in order to control the disease. As they say, diabetes is a disease for life. You can't cure it but you can control it.

Answer 4

Alcohol will raise the blood sugar. If you are diabetic, I'd highly recommend you do NOT drink.

Answer 5

Alcohol will raise your blood pressure because of the sugar content.

Answer 6

alcohol cannot reduce diabetes because it harms all your internal organs and that keeps you from being yourself again. Your diabetes will get even worse if you drink alcohol with it

Answer 7

It increases the sugar level drastically & kills ur insulin level in ur body. Due to which ur triglycerides level increases drastically & affects ur kidney n liver functions easily.

Answer 8

Yes