When you’re diagnosed with diabetes, be it type two or type one, your blood-sugar becomes gospel to you. It becomes a number you have to know and predict, it becomes something which you need to understand. Given time you should be able to know what effect a certain type of food or a certain period exercise will have on your blood-sugar and you’ll counter it naturally. Even the most adherent diabetic will slip up or forget occasionally and it’s their ability to deal with that which marks their experience with the condition.
One of the most important things for diabetics to be aware of is that, should their blood-sugar ever fall too low, it’ll start to give you symptoms which could eventually make you relatively unstable. Certainly, should this happen to you while you’re in control of a heavy machinery or a vehicle then you could cause some considerable damage to the people around you and, inevitably yourself. Patients who have no control over their condition can have their licences taken away from them and shouldn’t be trying to get behind the wheel of a car anyway.
If you’re a diabetic and you’re intending to drive then it’s important that you’ve got everything you could possibly need to stabilise your blood-sugar levels right there in the car with you. So, bring glucose tablets and hard candies to help boost your blood-sugar levels and if you’re taking regular doses of insulin make sure to have some extras in the car to be safe!
If you’re ever concerned about your blood-sugar levels while driving then it’s important to stop your vehicle as soon as you can. If you’ve got the supplies with you then great, stabilise your levels and get back on the road but if you don’t then you’ll need to either call for help or go and buy some sugary things yourself! Do not start driving again until you feel safe in your own ability to!
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