Diabetes is one of the most notable chronic-degenerative diseases of the 21st century, both for its frequency and for its economic costs, being a challenge for health throughout the world, in fact in our country its increase is alarming since it is amongThe first causes of death for Mexicans.

However, there is another world epidemic: stress, which according to the United Nations Organization (UN) is and will be “the disease of the twentieth century” and, in case that was not enough, the World Health Organization (WHO)He identified that by 2020 he will be responsible for triggering diseases that will have the first places of causes of loss of healthy years of life and death, such as heart disease, depression, accidents, among others.

Diabetes marries stress from the moment it is diagnosed;Until now, in no study published in the medical literature, it has been identified that a patient is happy with the news that he has a chronic-degenerative disease, such as that condition, so the person who lives with her becomes potentially vulnerable to stressorsof everyday demands such as getting up early, perhaps getting into Tuzobús or expecting that the results of the next elections do not affect their work ...

The problem of that marriage is that it generates an emotional discomfort in the person who lives with diabetes and in which they surround it, since it becomes irritable, very similar to the characters that come out announcing a chocolate brand on television, onlythat here the remedy is not to eat it;They can also present head and back pain, difficulty concentrating and even anxiety crisis, which can result in the deterioration of their labor productivity and their interpersonal relationships.

What turns stress into a bad husband is that it generates glucose elevation in the body, a situation that is not appropriate for people with diabetes.It turns out that when a person (with or without diabetes) is stressed, for example when it seemed that the scratches could win the championship, the body segregates different substances called hormones, which make the body prepare to flee or attack.

That reaction was extraordinary at the time when the human being lived with wild beings, however currently it continues to work for our survival, such as when a two -legged rat is going through our path or a distracted driver with the cellthe high;Total, the human body secretes those substances that make the body increase a rapid fuel: glucose.

In a healthy person that increase in glucose is momentary and in a short time it returns to normal, instead in people living with diabetes that is dangerous, because they already have a high glucose level in blood and with the stress it risesMore, being able to accelerate the presence of complications.

Both diabetes and stress are treatable and not, its divorce is not possible, but the improvement of their relationship, since stress will always be present in the life of humanity, what matters is that it is a positive stress and notone negative.

What, what? Positive stress? Is it?Yes, it does exist and is called Eustress and we will live with him our whole life.It presents when we see that our favorite soccer team wins, when there are discounts on the stores that we like or when the parking lot will earn another car, if there was no more stress, it would be easier to fall into a depressive state andEmotional plain.

From the stress that we all take careDesired, environments with a lot of noise or economic problems, to mention only some triggers;The danger increases when these stressors remain constant in the individual, because that generates that he gets sick and his quality of life deteriorates, now if he already has a base disease, the prognosis is not good.