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Hypoglycemia

Definition:

Hypoglycemia is also known as low blood sugar. It occurs when your blood glucose is too low. Happens more often with Type 1 diabetes, but it can sometimes happen with Type 2, if your medication is too powerful, or if you have been exercising many. Not enough sugar in the blood means that your cells do not have enough glucose for energy.

Your brain also needs glucose to function. It is not its own glucose and depends on the glucose in the blood. When you have hypoglycemia, you might feel nervous or precarious, dizzy or dazed, sleepy or hungry. You can be confused, sweat, or have difficulty to speak or walk.

If you feel these symptoms, eating or drinking a snack sweet immediately, as half a cup of orange juice, half a can of regular soda beans, rescuers from 5 to 7 or jelly, or 2 teaspoons of sugarhoney or corn syrup. Test your blood glucose as soon as possible and in fifteen minutes after your dose of sugar. Some people carry a tube of cake Mate decorator gel with them at any time, in cases where they feel these symptoms.

If someone is severely hypoglycemic and is unable to swallow, do not try to give them orally sugar. It is an emergency situation, and the paramedics and hospital staff should be administered glucose intravenously.

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