Diabetics must take care while Fasting during Ramadan: Experts

July 11, 2014

"Fasting during Ramadan requires a person to take two meals a day with long gaps in between. Modifying consumption patterns leads to changes in body metabolism and diabetics should adjust their treatment plan accordingly," says Dr Shehla Shaikh of Mumbai's KGN Diabetes & Endocrinology Center.

Diabetics ought to abstain from expending exceedingly refined and greasy sustenances in the wake of breaking the quick and if there are any indications of hypoglycemia (insufficiency of glucose in the circulatory system), they ought to end the quick, she prescribes.

Fasting throughout Ramadan, the ninth month of the Muslim year, is an individual decision for diabetes patients and ought to be carried out just under restorative supervision, as indicated by specialists.

Masters suggest a diabetes evaluation throughout Ramadan which would make patients mindful of dangers, in light of which they could be encouraged to minimize the dangers.

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