Hypoglycemia in juvenile diabetics
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They are absolutely wrong in saying that hypoglycemia cannot cause seizures. A very severe low like the one your son had CAN indeed cause seizures. And those seizures stop as soon as the blood sugar levels are normalized. Usually, some twitching of muscles, sometimes shaking hands, sometimes twitch to face, happens first, so watch for those symptoms. I would suggest that you look very carefully at his diet, avoiding all high-glycemic index foods and caffeine.
Although some studies tend to indicate that some type 1 diabetics do not release these emergency sugars quite as well as non-diabetics, there is still a store of emergency sugars to help. Unfortunately, one of the things that alcohol does is preventing this release of emergency sugars. If you do some research on this subject you will find that many doctors suggest that diabetics either don't drink alcohol at all or limit the intake to 1 drink.
1) It is illegal and you can end up arrested for drug use, which kills many future opportunities,
2) Most users experience the munchies while high, and diabetics tend to find that their glucose levels rise when using marijuana because of this. If you cannot eat while thinking clearly enough to count your carbohydrates and take adequate insulin to cover them, you put yourself at risk of severe complications.
My 28 year old son has had Type I since he was 15 yrs old. Those first fiew years went quite smoothly. Then he got the pump and went off to college. I think he may have started a little rebellion at this point. He started guessing at his BS and would give too much insulin.... anyway, he now has hypoglycemic unawareness. It happens a lot during the night.
I am not a physician, but a mom of a type one and the daughter of a type 2. In a type one diabetic commonly called Juvenile diabetes( because it usually is diagnoses in children , but I know people that were in they 30's and 40's and were diagnosed) is when the body stop s producing insulin.
Type 2 diabetics your body still produces insulin, but cannot use it properly use the insulin without help of medication.
It is known that many diabetics, particularly ones who are tightly controlled, can lose their warning symptoms of hypoglycemia, but i have never heard this blamed on any particular type of insuln. A number of studies have been done on this issue, and one released a few years ago linked the problem to frequency of hypoglycemic episodes and the body's emergency response to them when they are not fixed quickly.
This type of hypoglycemia does not lead to diabetes.
The cause of Juvenile Diabetes is thought to be a malfunction in the autoimmune function of the body. People carrying certain genetic predisposition can become type 1 diabetics (called Juvenile Diabetes because it frequently happens during childhood, when viral attacks are common) when a viral infection somehow triggers the body's immune system to attack it's own insulin-producing cells as well as the virus.
Some of your questions are tough ones. Let's start with the first...
1. The effect of alcohol on diabetics. The main danger that I have read about concerns alcohol's impairs the liver's ability to release its stores of emergency sugars in case of severe hypoglycemia. A hypoglycemic episode can be life-threatening if your body is unable to help you by making those sugars available, and also if your alertness to the warning symptoms is dulled by alcoholic haze.
do you mean within the moment or do you mean prolonged meaning as in years? I hope you mean in the moment because one has hypoglycemia for life,right?Also, that doesn't happen often does it? If your blood sugar drops and you eat,and then feel better, that stuff should not happen right?
This has happened once 2 years ago, I would get hungry or really hungry for that matter at work and i would get shakey internally, sometimes i'd get very warm (I have panic disorder aswell so some of these symptoms could be associated with that) As soon as I eat, 10 mins or so the shaking stops. Not all the time I can get up and go eat at work. But in the past 4 months it's happened three more times. I was just wondering if this could be hypoglycemia?
This confusion is common, for the medications that most people are put on to treat diabetes can cause hypoglycemia if overdosed or if the patient delays a meal or perhaps does not eat the usual amount of carbohydrates in a normal meal. So diabetics can and do suffer from hypoglycemia.
I don't understand how alcohol can cause hypoglycemina in diabetics. It seems to me that it would cause hyperglycemia because of the sugar in the alcohol. I just heard a story of an adult who passed out twice because she had wine after taking insulin. Her blood sugar was 175 when she took her insulin and within 15 minutes she was passed out.
The tiredness over a long period of time could easily have been a symptom of hypoglycemia or diabetes, either of which would be made worse by the sugar in the alcohol. I would recommend a blood test ASAP. The passing out is of course dangerous, whether it be from low or high blood sugar. At this point, a glucose tolerance test should be done if a fasting blood sugar does not show diabetes. Frequently, hypoglycemics turn into type 2 diabetics as their pancreases continue to work overtime.
He has been battling hypoglycemia ever sisnce. We have been in and out of ICUs and all they can do is give him Dextrose 10% IVs a few days and send him home afterwards until it happens again. We are told it has something to do with when he eats and the food sits in his stomach a hormone or something chemical stimulates the pancreas to shoot EXCESSIVE insulin. Our gastros can't figure it out and our endocrinologists can't either? We are in Miami, Florida.
t know if she is seeing a specialist now, but at her tender age, this kind of dangerous problem (severe hypoglycemia that is severe enough to cause the presence of keytones in her urine) needs the specialization of the endocrinologist. A regular pediatrician is just not going to have the experience with this particular problem to be able to help you.
It sounds like Reactive Hypoglycemia refers to people that have low blood sugar after eating, even if they eat sufficient carbs. It seems as though Reactive Hypoglycemia exists in some people entirely separate from any diagnosis of diabetes. (but they check to make sure as hypoglycemia is a symptom often experienced by diabetics).
I had some problem with my BP so visited my physician to have the advice and got my sugar levels checked, as well, having taken rice so that the true position could be known. It was 270mg/dl. Nex day I just cut down my food intake. I had a hypoglycemia event at around 6 in the evening and took ice cream hurriedly to cope with the condition. Please help me what is this and how can i deal with the situation. what type of diabetes is this. I am 53, smoker and off and on walk 5 kilometer.
In her case, this has made stabilizing her glucose levels more difficult since the hormones produced by the adrenal glands do affect blood sugar. In any event, the thyroid is OFTEN affected in diabetics, and most doctors check the thyroid levels every time they run lab tests to check on us. The doctors may be slowly raising her insulin levels to get that sugar under control, and the kidney infections will subside once the sugars are under control.
If it is reactive hypoglycemia the intake of sugar will depress blood sugar further. In the other type an intake of sugar will raise blood sugar. The latter would explain why the intake of sugar helps you. I hope other people on this forum can explain it better, since my knowledge is sketchy. I have reactive hypoglycemia.
Similarly, shaky hands can occur in folks who have an unrelated condition called hypoglycemia, in folks with a neurological condition, or in folks who are quite stressed physically or emotionally. As I mentioned above, it can also be a side effect from some medications.
Shaky hands can mean many things ... or can mean simply that a person has shaky hands. I know a fellow who simply has shaky hands -- seems he always has.
If this injection is effective in bringing down blood sugar levels, why couldn't some type of use of this injection substance be useful in lowering blood sugar levels when they are running to high? This might be a stupid question, but I was just wondering. Thanks!
If you are experiencing increased heartbeat when this happens, you may also want to ask your doctor to check your thyroid levels, for many type 1 diabetics have thyroid abnormalities at some time in their lives. The same immune system problem that causes the body to attack the insulin-producing cells can also cause it to attack the thyroid and produce odd symptoms such as heart palpitations. You also may have low blood pressure.
org -- click on the link for the Online Diabetes Research Foundation and fill out the form that pops up, asking to be put in touch with someone experienced in issues of hypoglycemia and hypoglycmia unawareness.
This can be fixed. Take heart.
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