Experiencing Sleep Disruption, Diabetes Patients According To Doctors Need To Schedule Dinner

The photo archive - visitors conducted a blood sugar check in Jakarta, Friday (11/24/2023). (Doc. ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The number of diabetes in the country has increased in recent years, and has reached an alarming level

Internal medicine specialist from the National Central General Hospital (RSUPN) Dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo Dr. dr. Tri Juli Edi Tarigan, SpPD-KEMD, said diabetics need to make a routine dinner schedule to prevent sleep disturbances.

Tri Juli during an online discussion that was attended from Jakarta, Saturday, said diabetic patients need to have dinner on a consistent schedule.

"For example, at 7 pm it has been determined so it's dinner time, it's 7 o'clock and then dinner. No matter how busy, the dinner is still at 7 o'clock, because, right, you're taking medicine," said Tri Juli, reported by ANTARA, Saturday, January 20.

With a consistent schedule of both eating and taking medication as a therapy, diabetics can control their blood sugar to stabilize. By controlling blood sugar to be stable, patients can eliminate sleep disorders that usually occur in diabetics.

Tri Juli said sleep disorders in diabetics generally occur because blood sugar levels are too high or too low.

In diabetics with too high blood sugar, sleep disorders are usually experienced because urine production increases and the desire to muffle becomes more frequent, causing a sustainable thirst.

Then, in diabetics with low blood sugar, sleep disorders are also often experienced because it makes the heart palpitate and even creates anxiety which eventually makes you feel uncomfortable when you want to sleep.

In addition, the habit of having dinners that are too narrow with bedtime has the potential to also provide problems with sleep disorders.

If the dinner time and bedtime are too close, the digestive tract is usually still active and also makes the hormones in the body still high and makes it difficult for the body to sleep. Therefore, diabetics are advised to schedule dinners that are not too close to bedtime.

"For people with diabetes, don't have dinner too late, if possible, the dinner is scheduled for 6 pm to 7 pm," concluded Tri Juli.