How to Manage Diabetes With Cancer?


Diabetes is a frustrating disease to deal with on its own. Cancer on the other hand can be both exhausting and painful. On the other hand, battling both the diseases together is a challenge of a different kind. It can stress up your life even more.

With increasing cases of both cancer and diabetes, it is becoming even more important for patients with both these conditions to find ways to manage the diseases and reduce the risk of infection and the severe side effects that they might have to face.

Between 8-18% of people living with cancer also have diabetes. Most of the patients generally know that they are diabetic before being diagnosed with cancer, some of them discover diabetes only after being diagnosed with cancer or while treatment.

Properly managing diabetes during cancer is critical since it can affect all other organs. Cancer and its treatment may cause metabolic changes that trigger or aggravate symptoms of diabetes. Increased levels of sugar can weaken the immune system that is very important when fighting cancer.

10 tips to manage diabetes while undergoing cancer treatment or post cancer treatment are:

-          Educate yourself about both the diseases and how it can impact your body. Knowing how to manage these diseases will empower you to take better care of yourself.

-          Make a plan and discuss your goals with your medical practitioner.

-          Keep a balance of a healthy diet that includes a healthy level of glucose that helps fight fatigue. It’s also extremely important to stay active and have a regular exercise routine to keep diabetes in check.

-          Regularly monitor your blood sugar levels to keep it in check. It can help prevent infection, nausea, fatigue and other challenges.

-          Diabetes and high blood pressure can damage your blood vessels. Hence it is very important to monitor your blood pressure regularly. It can also impair your immune system and reduce the ability to fight the virus. Hence it is important to manage and keep your blood pressure in check maintaining a regular diet and healthy habits.

-          To regulate your blood sugar, it is important to carefully manage what you eat. Hence have a smartly managing eating habits. Maintaining a healthy balance of carbohydrates, fat and protein.

-          Staying physically active can help increase the efficiency of cells to absorb glucose and process it. It can also help increase muscle and hence reducing insulin resistance and can change your mood.

-          Avoid unhealthy habits like smoking or drinking. Both can further impair your immune system making you more susceptible to cold and respiratory infections. Alcohol can further dehydrate and weaken your immune system.

-          It is important to manage your stress while coping with cancer and diabetes because it can adversely affect your blood sugar levels.

-          Talking about how you feel with others in order to manage your feelings. 

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