Can you get Diabetes overnight?

Type 2 diabetes is progressive and increases according to the consumption of sugar.

The dawn phenomenon, also called the "dawn effect," is the term used to describe an abnormal rise in blood sugar (glucose) experienced by people with diabetes early in the morning, usually between 2 a.m. and 5 p.m. 8 in the morning.

Some researchers believe that the natural release of counterregulatory hormones at night, such as growth hormone, cortisol, glucagon, and epinephrine, increases insulin resistance, leading to increased blood sugar.

High blood sugar in the morning can also be caused by not enough insulin the night before, insufficient doses of diabetes medications, or eating carbohydrate snacks at bedtime.

If you have consistently high blood sugar in the morning, you should check it once a night, around 2 or 3 a.m., for several nights in a row so your doctor can determine if you have the dawn phenomenon or if there is some other reason for high blood sugar in the morning.

*What can you do*

Don't eat carbohydrates at bedtime.

Adjust the dose of medications you take or insulin.

Change medication.

Change the time you take your medicine or give yourself insulin: do it at bedtime instead of at dinner time.

Use an insulin pump to give yourself an extra dose of insulin in the early morning hours. (For Type 1)

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