Diabetic patients should be careful when eating too much meat and fish during the Spring Festival!

During the Spring Festival, there are many family gatherings, accompanied by festive and sumptuous meals. People eat and drink to their heart's content, which not only causes blood sugar to soar, but also disrupts the rhythm of life. If you consume too much high-sugar and high-fat food and have an irregular lifestyle, it will challenge the body's defense line, not only causing blood sugar levels in diabetic patients to rise, but also easily lead to fundus lesions: diabetic retinopathy!

Diabetic retinopathy

Diabetes is a common endocrine disease. It sounds like it has nothing to do with the eyes, but it is not. The current harm of diabetes is that it can cause many chronic complications. Eye disease is one of the common chronic complications of diabetes, especially when proliferative diabetic retinopathy occurs, which will seriously affect the patient's vision and quality of life.

The harm of diabetic retinopathy

1. High blindness rate. Diabetic retinopathy has become the main cause of blindness in people aged 20 to 65, and its blindness rate is 10 to 25 times higher than that of non-diabetic patients.

2. Affect vision. Diabetic retinopathy may cause damage to the fundus barrier, which will cause bleeding and exudation, which will seriously affect vision. If the macular area is involved, central vision will decrease, accompanied by visual distortion.

3. Cause complications. Diabetic retinopathy may be complicated by hemorrhagic glaucoma, vitreous hemorrhage, macular degeneration, retinal detachment and other diseases.

Tips for eye protection for diabetics

Eat regularly and consume a moderate amount of carbohydrates, fats, and high-calorie foods while meeting your body's needs. Control your daily sugar intake, reduce smoking, and limit your drinking.

Reasonable and effective exercise can effectively consume calories, maintain normal body metabolism, promote blood circulation and improve body functions.

Monitor blood sugar and blood pressure, strictly control diet and blood sugar levels, and do not indulge in excessive eating due to family reunions, which may cause excessive fluctuations in blood sugar and lead to accidents.

Medication cannot be stopped. During the Spring Festival, diabetic retinopathy patients must continue to take blood sugar and blood pressure lowering drugs as prescribed by the doctor. They cannot stop taking medication just because blood sugar is temporarily stable. Otherwise, it will lead to worsening of fundus lesions and other complications, and even worsen cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Min Hanyi, director of Tianjin University Aier Eye Hospital, said that when symptoms such as eye swelling, eye twitching, decreased vision, and vision being blocked by dark shadows suddenly occur, you need to be vigilant and seek medical attention as soon as possible to avoid irreversible damage to your vision. Diabetic retinopathy is preventable and controllable. It is recommended that diabetics have regular fundus examinations and scientific management on a daily basis. Even if the disease occurs, there is no need to panic, build confidence, and adhere to standardized treatment.