Does high blood sugar mean diabetes

High blood sugar is not necessarily diabetes.

When the human body is in acute infection, trauma, surgery or severe mental stimulation, it will cause the body to secrete a large number of stress hormones, such as adrenaline, glucocorticoids, etc. These hormones may cause a transient increase in blood sugar, but this situation is usually temporary. After the stress factors are eliminated, blood sugar will gradually return to normal.

High blood sugar is only a phenomenon, and diabetes cannot be diagnosed only by one or several blood sugar test results. Multiple factors need to be considered for further examination and evaluation, such as multiple blood sugar measurements, oral glucose tolerance test, etc., to determine whether there is diabetes or other causes of high blood sugar. At the same time, high blood sugar should not be taken lightly, and medical advice should be followed for reasonable intervention and management.