New Delhi, Feb. 7 -- For most people living with diabetes, managing blood sugar is about routine, eating right, taking insulin or medicines on time, and staying active. But for some, blood sugar levels refuse to cooperate despite doing everything by the book. This condition is known as brittle diabetes, or labile diabetes, and it can make everyday life exhausting and unpredictable. Though not an official medical diagnosis, brittle diabetes is a term doctors use to describe diabetes that is extremely difficult to control. It is characterised by sudden and frequent fluctuations between very high and dangerously low blood glucose levels.

Endocrinologist and diabetologist Dr Piyush Lodha tells Health Shots that these fluctuations can signifi...