The body responds to stress by making more steroid hormones, one action of which is to raise blood sugar.
A cold is a virus, but you also get secondary infections when the cold ends.
The viral part is only a couple of days long, the rest is infection from bacteria
that live in you all the time. The body makes antibodies and white cells and this takes energy.
Your sugar elevation is mild. I know a non-diabetic who went up to 800 with the flu!
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