Home  |  Health & Fitness  |  Conditions & Treatments  | 

Living with Diabetes - The Importance of Exercise

What are some of the precautions to take with exercise if diabetic?

To properly view this site, javascript must be enabled and Flash version 9 or higher must be installed.
Get the latest Flash player

What are some of the precautions to take with exercise if diabetic?

In this series, Kathy Reily discusses the various issues that diabetics face and how you can be healthy with diabetes.

This expert: 75,900 views

This series: 6,856 views

Download - Coming Soon!
Tags:

Diabetes

,

Exercise

,

Fitness

,

Work out

,

Healthy

,

Disease

,

Precautions

,

Blood

,

Sugar

Comments:

0 (Read Comments) (Add Comment)

Print

Transcripts

Speaker: What are some of the precautions to take with exercise?

Kathy Reily: Some of the precautions with exercise would involve persons with diabetes that take certain medications that will lower their blood sugar. So if you are taking one of these particular medications or insulin, you would need to make sure that you are not having a hypoglycemic reaction during the exercise or after you finish. So if you do take a medication that causes hypoglycemia, you do want to check your blood sugar before your exercise and have your blood sugar meter available while you are exercising. Another caution with exercise is that you most likely want to have some form of medical identification on you so that if anybody needs to stop and help you, if you are having a low blood sugar they would see your medical ID, either on bracelet or necklace and would be able to tell somebody that you do have diabetes and that your sugar should be checked. If you do take one of the medications that causes low blood sugar, during exercise you would want to have available some form of sugar or carbohydrate in case you had a low blood sugar and examples of these would be some glucose tablets or juice just available to give you some quick carbohydrate to push your sugar up in case it went low.

Other Videos

  • How to Clean & Care for Braces

    How to Clean & Care for Braces

    Dr. Maulik demonstrates and explains how to clean your teeth with braces. He discusses the proper way to brush, floss and care for your braces.
  • Understanding the Problems of Obesity

    Understanding the Problems of Obesity

    This video is about obesity and weight issues in our society, which is now recognized by the medical profession as the world's #1 health problem. I will answer your questions about the impact of excess weight; the consequences and what can be done about it.
  • What role can a defibrillator play in treating cardiac arrest?

    What role can a defibrillator play in treating cardiac ...

    In this video, Dr. Robert O'Connor, professor & chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Virginia Health System, discusses the role of defibrillators.
  • Back Massage 3 of 7

    Back Massage 3 of 7

    Back Massage 3 of 7
  • Sexy Dancing for Health and Fitness

    Sexy Dancing for Health and Fitness

    The fitness craze that is sweeping the nation is now unveiled for you--learn how to lose hundreds of pounds and look good doing it!
  • Prenatal Yoga

    Prenatal Yoga

    Yoga teacher Kathy Duke guides participants through a prenatal yoga practice. This video includes a centering breathing practice, postures to increase flexibility and strength, and a soothing relaxation at the end. The sequence shown is appropriate for anyone who is expecting, and is suitable for those without any yoga experience. Although all poses are adapted to be safe during pregnancy, consult with your health care practitioner before beginning.