What Causes Hyperglycemia in Diabetes?
Hyperglycemia in diabetes may be caused by: • Skipping or forgetting your insulin or oral glucose-lowering medicine • Eating too many grams of carbohydrates for the amount of insulin administered or just eating too many grams of carbohydrates in general • Eating too much food and having too may calories • Infection • Illness • Increased stress • Decreased activity or exercising less than usual • Strenuous physical activity
