11/18/2013

Hypoglycemia is a state when your blood glucose is lower than normal. If you have diabetes, then this hypoglycemia is one of the consequences from your diabetes treatment.



Someone who lives with diabetes is always at constant combat with high glucose that could cause many complications. To maintain your blood glucose level at normal, your doctor prescribes drugs and other treatments. But unfortunately, these drugs and treatments are not always perfect. If you take the drugs too much or overdo the exercise or eat too little, the blood glucose level in your body could drop and the symptoms of hypoglycemia will occur.



The Seriousness of Hypoglycemia



Hypoglycemia could disturb your daily activities and leave you feeling dazed and exhausted afterwards. Another risk that could occur is when you over treating your hypoglycemia your body could end up in a high glucose level state.



Hypoglycemia is the obstacle for most of diabetes patient from achieving normal level of glucose. To avoid long-term complications such as eye disease, kidney disease, and nerve disease, diabetes patient need to maintain their glucose level at normal point, but to prevent heart disease, they lower glucose level that is hard to achieve because of the threat of hypoglycemia especially for those with type 1 diabetes.



Symptoms of hypoglycemia



When people had blood glucose below the minimum standard, they will usually begin to show the symptom of hypoglycemia. Doctors traditionally put the symptoms of hypoglycemia into two major categories:



Symptoms due to the side effects of the hormones (especially epinephrine) that your body sends out to counter the glucose-lowering effect of insulin: The symptoms that could occur are Whiteness, or pallor, of your skin, Sweating, Rapid heartbeat, Palpitations, or the feeling that your heart is beating too fast, Anxiety, Numbness in the lips, fingers or toes, Irritability, and Sensation of hunger.



Symptoms that are due to your brain not receiving enough fuel so that your intellectual function suffers: The symptoms that could occur are Headache, Loss of concentration, Visual disorders, such as double vision or blurred vision, Fatigue, Confusion and trouble concentrating, Trouble hearing, and Poor color vision.
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