High Blood Sugar Found After Surgery. Reason?

Posted on Sun, 6 Jan 2013

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Sun, 6 Jan 2013 Answered on

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Question : I had surgery yesterday and my fasting blood sugar is 190 this morning after not eating since 8 pm last night. My regular sugar would be 120.

Answered by Dr. Om Lakhani (1 hour later)

Hi,

surgey or any kind of stress can cause what is known as "stress hypergylcemia". It will come back to routine in a couple of dayss. You can increase the bed time basal insulin by 2 units to counter this stress hypergylcemia.

Regards
Dr. Om Lakhani

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar