What are the damaging effects of hypoglycemia?
November 5, 2009 by Diabetes and Blood Glucose Tips
Filed under Hypoglycemia & Hyperglycemia
Can you answer poo’s question about Diabetes?:
Is there any permanent damage? If you have hypoglycemia does that mean you have diabetes?
Adult Onset Diabetes
Is there any permanent damage? If you have hypoglycemia does that mean you have diabetes?
Adult Onset Diabetes
Diabetes Feedback: Nope. Hypogycemia and Diabetes are two seperate diseases. Hypoglycemia means that you do not have enough sugar in your blood. Diabetes means that you have too much sugar in your blood.
Diabetes Feedback: No it does not mean that you have diabetes. My doctor actually told me that being hypoglycemic is actually more dangerous than having diabetes. If your sugar gets too low, you could pass out, go into a coma, a seizure……it is not something to fool around with.
Diabetes Feedback: The damaging effects of hypoglycaemia=too low blood sugar depend on how low. If very, very low, it can kill you, if very low and you go unconscious, it can cause permanent brain damage, if only a little low, you just feel tired, exhausted and don’t suffer permanent damage.Brain needs sugar always, so that is why hypoglycaemia affects brain most.Other organs can get along with other substrates for metabolism.
Diabetes (type 1) is a disease of deficiency of insulin which is needed for sugar to go from blood to cells.So, if the sugar just goes around and not into cells where it is needed, it piles up and we end up with high blood sugar while cells starve and eventually we die if we are not getting insulin. Diabetics are prone also to hypoglycaemia, if they get too much insulin and too little food.
If there is nothing basicly wrong in the insulin secretion and control, hypoglycaemia usually never goes so low that it causes permanent damage. The really serious hypoglycaemias are ususally in diabetics or overdose of insulin in some other condition or insulin producing tumor.
In summary:serious hypoglycaemia is very serious but usually only in diabetics. for the rest of us sugar goes only a little low at times -and that is a different story.
balanced sugars wishes
mary a
Diabetes Feedback: If you don’t eat you, feel bad. It’s natural. Everyone has this once in a while. My doctor told me that hypoglycemia kinda exists, but it’s not as bad as everyone makes it seem. He says that it’s all a natural thing that a body does and it can happen to anyone who doesn’t eat enough, but that people just blow it out of proportion. In a round about way, he says that doctors use this for people who think they always have something wrong with them.