Diabetes and Ramadan

Readers (Teachers Students....) are seeking to clarify some concepts regarding fasting during Ramadan specifically to see the consequences of diabetic people with chronic diseases during Ramadan and their health effects. Fasting in people with diabetes whose blood sugar levels are poorly managed is associated with multiple risks. Fasting during Ramadan has been unanimously discouraged by the medical community for people with diabetes. Some of the major potential diabetes-related complications caused by fasting include hypoglycaemia hyperglycaemia diabetic ketoacidosis and thrombosis. In this book some chapters contain questions for application to the course and you will have the opportunity to review expand upon and put into context concepts you have learned in the course of your studies. Metabolism involves reactions of degradation known to people with diabetes.