What is hypoglycemia? Be alert to hypoglycemia

Blood sugar testing is a physical examination that many people do. It is a means of monitoring one's own blood sugar level. When some people test their blood sugar, they find that their blood sugar is always low. What's going on? Is it a disease or a normal physiological phenomenon? This requires some judgment based on appearance.

1: Adrenergic symptoms include sweating, nervousness, tremors, weakness, dizziness, palpitations, and hunger, due to increased sympathetic nerve activity and increased adrenaline release (which may occur in patients who have had their adrenal glands removed).

2: Manifestations of the central nervous system include confusion, abnormal behavior (which may be mistaken for drunkenness), visual impairment, stupor, coma, and epilepsy. Hypoglycemic coma often has a lower body temperature. The rate of blood sugar reduction in sympathetic nervous system symptoms is faster than that in central nervous system symptoms, but the degree of hypoglycemia is mild. Regardless of the type, blood sugar levels vary significantly from person to person.

1: Palpitations, hand tremors, hunger, and dizziness. This symptom can be masked by some drugs for treating hypertension and heart disease, such as β-receptor blockers: propranolol, acetaminophen, etc. Patients treated with insulin sulfonylurea hypoglycemic drugs should be cautious when taking these drugs.

2: Consciousness disorder: garbled speech, coma. Some also have convulsions. It often occurs in elderly patients or those with severe hypoglycemia.

3: Reactive hyperglycemia after hypoglycemia: After hypoglycemia occurs, the body will have a hyperglycemia process after a period of adjustment. For example, if hypoglycemia occurs at night, the fasting blood sugar in the morning will rise instead. This should attract everyone's attention.

1: Eat some sweets or drink some sugar water; because sometimes hypoglycemia comes quickly and the patient quickly falls into a coma and cannot save himself at all, and needs help from others. Therefore, diabetic patients should tell their family members and friends to be familiar with the symptoms of hypoglycemia and first aid knowledge. In addition, carry a card with you so that you can get help from others as soon as possible in case of hypoglycemia coma.

2: Ask your doctor to prescribe the right dosage, do not increase the dosage at will; eat regularly and regularly; exercise regularly and regularly; monitor blood sugar regularly; avoid drinking alcohol; when taking other drugs together, understand whether they have the effect of lowering blood sugar or masking hypoglycemia. Patients taking sulfonylurea hypoglycemic drugs and patients injecting insulin should carry some sweets with them at all times.

Pay attention to your diet and nutritional supplements. What should you do if you always have low blood sugar? There are many ways. In addition to basic treatment, three meals a day are essential and must be nutritious. When you go out, bring some sweets with you. Eat more sweets and drink more sugar water. This will help your condition.