Does being cold affect Blood Glucose ?

[pat.y]

My central heating is broken and I am trying to stay warm in a fairly large lounge with a poxy fan heater and the rest of the house is like an ice box.

 

[Copepod]

Your body will use more energy to maintain proper temperature in colder conditions, so all other things being equal, your blood glucose levels will be lower.
Remember to use clothing as well as heating. Even sit inside a sleeping bag, if you have one. Wear a hat. Use a hot water bottle. Personally, I find a cat very useful when heating fails!

 

[Mark Parrott]

Our house is always cold, but that's because we are on oil heating and don't like using it too quickly. Though oil prices are pretty low at the moment. Should top up really. And we leave a window open in the kitchen for the cats. That doesn't help.🙄

 

[AlisonM]

My central heating is broken and I am trying to stay warm in a fairly large lounge with a poxy fan heater and the rest of the house is like an ice box.

Do you have an electric blanket, if not use your duvet or extra blankets? And layering is good, extra socks and jumpers or a couple of t-shirts under a jumper. Fingerless gloves/mitts. Plenty hot drinks.

 

[TheClockworkDodo]

Cold makes my bgl go down a lot - I need almost twice as much insulin in the summer as I do in the winter.

Hope you get the heating fixed soon, really not the weather for it to break.

 

[HOBIE]

Try camping in a force 10 gail, in a tent ,in Outer Hebs on a motorbike -6

 

[trophywench]

Try camping in a force 10 gail, in a tent ,in Outer Hebs on a motorbike -6

No - won't ! (virtually stamps foot and glares at Hobie)

 

[AlisonM]

Try camping in a force 10 gail, in a tent ,in Outer Hebs on a motorbike -6

Been there, done that, sans motorbike. It was an Austin mini instead. We had to weigh it down with rocks to stop it blowing away. Did the same with the tent but still spent most of the night hanging on to the edges. When we got back, my gran laughed like a drain and sewed the ground sheet and the tent together... Genius.

 

[Amberzak]

I'm the ither way. The cold raises my sugars. I need twice as much insulin in the winter than in the summer.