Nearly all patients with Type 1 Diabetes and above 20% of the patients with
Type 2 Diabetes have at least an experience of Diabetic Hypoglycemia. It can
cause much harm to the patients and even threaten the patients'life. Therefore,
the patients and their family members should know the manifestations and
preventions of Diabetic Hypoglycemia.
Blood glucose refers to the glucose in the blood. In normal case, the empty
blood glucose level should be 3.3~6.1 mmol/L and the postprandial 2 hours blood
glucose is 3.3~7.8 mmol/L. When blood glucose level is below 2.8 mmol/L, it is
called Hypoglycemia.
When the blood glucose level is too low, the patients will have paleness,
palpitation, excessive perspiration, tremble and even syncope. However, in some
cases, even if the patients'blood glucose level is above 2.8 mmol/L, they still
may have Hypoglycemia.
When the patients with Diabetes have Hypoglycemia, they will present the
following symptoms.
1. Sympathetic nerve is too excited
The patients with Hypoglycemia often feel particularly hungry, tremble in
limbs, fatigue and cold sweat, dizziness, nausea, vomit and so on.
2. Brain function disturbance
When suffering from Hypoglycemia, the patients with Diabetes will get mind
fuzzy, loss discernment, have headache, dizziness, speech disturbance, dementia,
and coma and so on.
However, in some cases, the patients' blood glucose level declines to 2.8
mmol/L, they do not have symptoms at all. In fact, the Hypoglycemia will also do
severe damage to the patients. Asymptomatic Hypoglycemia often occurs among the
patients who have a long history of Diabetes, control their blood glucose too
strictly, and have Diabetic Neuropathy and so on.
If the patients with Diabetes have the above symptoms, they should ask for
help from their family members at once to take emergency measures to avoid
further damage. Moreover, in their daily life, the patients with Diabetes should
use medicines rationally and monitor their blood glucose closely so as to avoid
Hypoglycemia.