Blood Sugar. 

Diabetes is a condition that results in increased sugar (glucose) levels in the blood. As the body produces insulin, which helps lower sugar. Deficiency of insulin can lead to increased sugar in the blood.

Please try to understand these tips:: * Sugar, artificial sweeteners and excess honey. Try to avoid foods containing ingredients end in (ol) or (ose) as these are mainly different forms of carbohydrates like fructose, glucose, dextrose. * Avoid grains like cakes, biscuits, pies, tarts, breakfast cereals, wheat, rye, barley, corn, rice, bread, pasta, pastry. * Avoid vegetables which contain larger amount of starch and carbohydrates like potatoes,carrots, peas, beans, parsnips, beet. * Also avoid fruits like water gallon, mangoes, banana, Chikoos(Pakistani), jackfruit, grapes, Strawberry, Sugarcane. * You may take milk but in small quantity. Avoid fat yogurts and cheese. Also be careful not to drink too much coffee or tea and add only as much sugar as in needed for taste. * Avoid fresh fruit juices as these are highly concentrated carbohydrates. If you like fruit juices you may dilute one part of juice with 3 or 4 parts of water. * Always avoid saturated fats like fatty meat, full fat dairy products, butter, lard. Try to prefer unsaturated fats like olive oil, corn oil, canula oil, sunflower oil,soya oil.Avoid cottage cheese as it has a high carbohydrate content and very little fat

Food to be taken: * You may take fruits like apple, Grapefruit, Lime, Peaches. You must divide your fruit and vegetable diet in five portions through all the day, by Spreading the fruit you eat through the day helps to avoid a sudden rise in blood sugar levels. * You must take high fibre diet. Fibrous diet is Cereals, Fruits, Nuts, Pulses, Seeds, Vegetables. Fibrous diet not only lowers your glucose level but also decreases blood cholesterol. * Always prefer non-fatty dairy products such as "skimmed milk", non-fat cheese and yoghurt. * All cheeses can be taken except cottage cheese. * You may take all vegetables, onion and garlic are known for decreasing blood glucose level.

Suggested medicines: Diabetes Medicine

Note: Do not stop your allopathy medicine immediately as ayurvedic medicine may take time to adjust to our body. You can give a gap between allopathy medicine and ayurvedic medicine of 1 to 2 hours.

Further queries are welcome.

With regards, Dr.Vijay.