Preparing for your appointment
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Posted on 30-12-2022 01:42 AM
Your health care provider might ask you questions, including: what symptoms have you been experiencing? when do your symptoms typically occur? does anything seem to trigger your symptoms? have you been diagnosed with other medical conditions? what medications are you currently taking? your health care provider will ask additional questions based on your responses, symptoms and needs. Preparing and anticipating questions will help you make the most of your appointment time. https://storage.googleapis.com/xzc/foods-diabetics-can-eat/low-carb-foods/Life-doesn-t-end-with-type-2-diabetes.html
Immediate treatment of severe hypoglycemia
Hypoglycemia is when the level of sugar in the blood drops below a healthy range. It’s also called low blood sugar or low blood glucose. Everyone has different levels of blood sugar at different times. But for most people, low blood sugar is defined as below 70 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter). Severe hypoglycemia usually happens at lower levels and is generally defined as a low blood sugar event that requires the assistance of someone else in order to correct the low blood sugar. Severe hypoglycemia is dangerous and needs treatment right away.
Over time, repeated episodes of hypoglycemia can lead to hypoglycemia unawareness. The body and brain no longer produce signs and symptoms that warn of a low blood sugar, such as shakiness or irregular heartbeats (palpitations). When this happens, the risk of severe, life-threatening hypoglycemia increases. If you have diabetes, recurring episodes of hypoglycemia and hypoglycemia unawareness, your health care provider might modify your treatment, raise your blood sugar level goals and recommend blood glucose awareness training. A continuous glucose monitor (cgm) is an option for some people with hypoglycemia unawareness. The device can alert you when your blood sugar is too low.
Hypoglycemia may make you pass out. If so, you'll need someone to give you a glucagon shot. Glucagon is a prescription medicine that raises blood sugar. You may need it if you have severe hypoglycemia. It's important that your family members and friends know how to give the shot if you have a reaction to low blood sugar. If you see someone having a severe hypoglycemic reaction, call 911 or take them to the nearest hospital for treatment. Don’t try to give an unconscious person food, fluids, or insulin, as they may choke.
Low blood glucose at night
Named after michael somogyi, phd, a chemist who was the first to describe it in the 1930s, the somogyi effect is the body’s response to low blood sugar ( hypoglycemia ) during the night. Say you miss dinner or take too much insulin after your evening meal. Your blood sugar may fall too low overnight. Your body makes more glucose in order to compensate, and you wake up with high blood sugar.
Surprisingly, the most dangerous episodes of hypoglycemia occur with little or no warning. When low blood glucose occurs on a regular basis, the body can become used to the warning signs and the person may stop noticing symptoms. This is a particularly dangerous condition known as hypoglycemic unawareness. People with this condition might not realize they have low blood glucose until it's dangerously low — seizures and coma are sometimes the first indication of a problem. The good news is that this condition can often be reversed — allowing people to once again notice the signs of low blood glucose — if hypoglycemia is avoided for a few weeks through careful monitoring of blood glucose.