When your kidneys fail, your body can not use
insulin as well as it did when you just had diabetes. Kidney failure and diabetes also
affects the nerves to your stomach and intestine, changing the way you absorb the food you
eat. These changes can make your blood sugar very abnormal when it used to be well
controlled. You may even begin to have no control over your blood sugar. Following both
your diabetic and dialysis diets can be very frustrating.
Maintaining regular eating patterns, can help you avoid low-blood-sugar
reactions and their dangers. High blood sugars are dangerous too and cause excess thirst.
This can lead to high-fluid weight gains and their complications. To avoid the dangers of
high and low blood sugars, you need to balance your diabetic and dialysis diets. Think of
other ways you can handle changes in your blood sugar to avoid high- and low-blood-sugar
complications.
