Top 12 Queries about Low Blood Sugar
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Top
12 Queries about Low Blood Sugar
2.
What are the causes of Low Blood Sugar?
3.
What are the sign and symptoms of Low Blood Sugar?
4.
What are the types of Low Blood Sugar?
5.
How to avoid Low Blood Sugar?
6.
Can children have affected by hypoglycemia?
7.
What are the effects of over alcohol intake?
8.
Do exercise cause hypoglycemia?
9.
What to do when you feel uncomfortable due to Low Blood
Sugar?
10.
What to do when hypoglycemia patient
?
11.
How diarrhea cause dangerous harm to a diabetic person?
12.
When a person should hospitalize?
Low blood sugar is a silent killer. Many of us are not aware of
this threat. Usually we took the risks and warnings very lightly. Ultimately, it
turned out to be fatal for us.
Here we are discussing the 12 questions about Low Blood Sugar
and try to know deeply about it.
What
is Low Blood Sugar?
Low Blood Sugar, often called low blood glucose or hypoglycemia,
or simply hypo. It happens when your bloodstream doesn’t have enough energy in
the form of glucose or sugar for regular body activity.
Glucose is the main energy source of our body. Because glucose dilutes in our bloodstream very quickly than any other compounds and produce energy in the form of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
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People feel uncomfortable due to Low Blood Sugar when sugar level
drops less than 4 mmol/L. This commonly happens to them who has diabetes and
takes insulin regularly.
What
are the causes of Low Blood Sugar?
- Injecting too much insulin
- Not taking food on time
- Not maintain diet plan and taking unhealthy foods
- Diarrhea
- Excessive intake of Alcohol
- Excessive amount of exercise
What
are the sign and symptoms of Low Blood Sugar?
1.
Sweating
This is the most common signal that someone is going to enter the
danger zone. The patient's whole body will be covered by tiny drops of water.
2.
Dizziness
Patient will be unable to listen or understand anything. His
muscles may get hardened.
3.
Blurred vision
Patent will not see at this stage. He will feel a dark black
membrane in front of his eyes.
4.
Suddenly feeling hungry
As body glucose drops, the body will need energy. So patient will
experience tremendous appetite.
5.
Shakiness and weakness
Patient will tremble due to weakness
6.
Light headache
Light headache may be seen
7.
Unconscious in final stage
If not treated on time, the patient will be senseless because the
brain is not receiving enough oxygen. This is a very crucial stage,
approximately after 5 to 8 min brain damage could occur. This leads to severe
organ failure to death.
What
are the types of Low Blood Sugar?
There are two types of hypoglycemia.
Reactive hypoglycemia and Fasting hypoglycemia
|
Reactive hypoglycemia |
Fasting hypoglycemia |
|
Less common |
Very often |
|
Occurs after few hours of taking food |
Have no specific timing |
|
It’s a genetic disorder. Absence of some important digest
enzymes |
Occurs when irregularities of talking meal or injecting too much
insulin |
In addition to these, hypoglycemia may be occurred in pregnancy.
If any women have gestational diabetes, she has a risk to face hypoglycemia.
How
to avoid Low Blood Sugar?
- Control blood sugar properly
- Maintain a healthy diet plan
- Don’t skip periodic meal intake
- Try to avoid alcohol completely. Don’t take alcohol in empty stomach.
- Always keep in touch with your doctor.
Can
children have affected by hypoglycemia?
Yes. There’s a term called ketotic hypoglycemia (KH). Usually, 5-6
years aged children can affect by ketotic hypoglycemia.
Cause:
- Illness
- Poor food intake
- Fasting long period
What
are the effects of over alcohol intake?
Alcohol can both increase and decrease blood sugar level. Blood
Sugar level can be increased due to diluted sugar in alcoholic drinks.
Besides, excessive alcohol intake may disrupt your regular liver
function, causes sudden up and down of blood sugar.
It’s a wise decision to avoid alcohol intake permanently.
Do
exercise cause hypoglycemia?
With some specific factors, exercise can trigger Low Blood Sugar.
Try to avoid these factors and enjoy risk-free exercise.
Factors are:
- Workout in empty stomach
- Workout after injecting insulin or others medication
- Workout after excess alcohol intake
What
to do when you feel uncomfortable due to Low Blood Sugar?
The main target is to push up blood sugar level to normal level.
You may take these measures:
- Immediately take glucose tablets.
- Relax your body. Sit down calmly.
- Measure blood sugar level using diabetic measuring machines.
What to do when hypoglycemia patient got senseless?
It's very important to treat a patient immediately who is
unconscious. If not treated timely, his health condition may get worst.
Follow these very important steps carefully:
- Place the patient in Recovery Position
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- Mix glucose powder with water and slowly feed the patient glucose water by spoon
- Sometimes you won't open patient mouth because leaps will tightly stick together. Force to open leaps and continue feeding.
- If the patient can’t swallow liquid glucose too, use Glucose Energy Liquids GEL/ Paste. It's very easy to use, quick and effective. Spread glucose paste inside the patient's mouth with your finger. This paste will be absorbed automatically in blood stream.
- Remember: Don’t put any solid food in patient's mouth during unconscious situation.
- Hopefully, after 5-10 minutes, patient will recover from unconsciousness.
- After regaining consciousness, the patient has to take some normal food like bread or biscuits. He must not stay on empty stomach
- Consult with a Diabetics Specialist if needed further.
How Diarrhea cause dangerous harm to a diabetic person?
Diarrhea is a major culprit for a Low Blood Sugar patient.
Diarrhea immediately decrease blood sugar level below dangerous
level.
If any diabetes patient faces diarrhea, he/she needs very special
attention.
Don’t let that patient fasting for long time. Measure blood
glucose level after a while.
Remember that diarrhea always lowers the blood sugar level.
When
a person should hospitalize?
Usually, hypoglycemia can be managed by feeding the patient liquid
glucose. However, if patients’ condition doesn’t improve, take him to the
nearest hospital as soon as possible.
Have you ever faced any of the above situations? If yes, please let us know.
I look forward to hearing from you!
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