Hypoglycemia in non diabetics
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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.
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.
This type of hypoglycemia does not lead to diabetes.
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.
Alcohol intake can lower blood sugar immediately and up to 12 hours after ingestion. While this effect can occur both in diabetics and non-diabetics alike, diabetics should use additional caution when drinking alcohol, especially if taking glucose-lowering medications such as insulin.
You can read a lot more at: http://diabetes.webmd.com/tc/hypoglycemia-low-blood-sugar-topic-overview
I think it's worth getting to the doc for some lab work. I hope this helps and good luck.
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 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.
You're right, β-blockers do blunt some hypoglycemic symptoms. As far as "do they have any effect on the beta cells", for t2 diabetics and non-diabetics β-blockers are known to inhibit insulin production and cause insulin resistance.
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.
I sincerely believe that TYPE 2 can be almost eradicated and also insulin resistance /hypoglycemia too, all these can pretty much be non existent, just from changing our diet... Eating excess sugar and carbs is our downfall, these insidious ingredients make us so sick, it is slowly killing us - strokes, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity just to name a few....
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.
Blood glucose levels, including hypoglycemia, are a totally different issue from MS. MS resides in our central nervous system and can be evidenced through our spinal fluid, not our blood.
I don't know that there is any blood sugar issue that would cause lesions on the brain.... does anyone else out there know this for sure?
When is your next followup with the neurologist? It sure sounds like you need to be discussing treatment.
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.
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.
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.
m very excited but unfortunately, last week I had a severe hypoglycemic reaction that resulted in a seizure. I regained consciousness without a problem but I am terrified that this means I could have put my baby at risk. Could someone shed some light on the risks, or lack thereof, I may be looking at here? What are the potential developmental risks I could have created with this hypoglycemic reaction? At only a month or so along would the impact of such an event be fairly minimal?
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