Here’s why diabetics should get proper sleep
New Delhi, Aug 21 (ANI): If you are a diabetic with a disrupted sleep pattern, you might need more time to heal skin wounds, finds a study. For the experiment, scientists used obese mice with features of Type 2 diabetes and compared them to healthy mice of normal weight. While deeply anesthetised, both groups of mice got a small surgical wound on the skin of their backs. The scientists analysed how long it took the wound to heal under two scenarios: a normal sleep schedule and sleep that was repeatedly interrupted. The result, the diabetic mice with fragmented sleep needed about 13 days for their wounds to achieve 50 percent healing. By contrast, even with sleep interruptions, the wounds of normal-weight healthy mice reached the same milestone in about five days. In people with Type 2 diabetes, high glucose levels lead to poor blood circulation and nerve damage, making the body more vulnerable to infections, especially after surgery. Sleep disorders can also weaken the immune system and slow healing. The findings have been published in the journal Sleep.
