Be careful of “low blood sugar” crisis
Posted on January 18, 2010
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Patients first, hunger, fatigue, limb numbness, emotional disturbances, pale, dizziness, vomiting, palpitation, chest tightness, and so on. Serious, sweating, skin damp and cool, articulation is unclear, can not concentrate, and sometimes out of seizures, convulsions, unconsciousness, incontinence, coma.
First aid measures:
1, absolute bed rest, quickly added that glucose is to determine the prognosis of the key. Added sugar will make a timely manner complete remission of symptoms; while delayed treatment appeared irreversible brain damage. Therefore, emphasis should be placed in low blood sugar episodes ahead of time, immediately give any high sugar substances, such as biscuits, fruit juice and so on. Severe food should pay attention to without rendering the trachea into the lungs choking, as well as cause aspiration pneumonia or atelectasis.
2, can eat their own patients with low blood sugar, diet should be low-sugar, high protein, high fat, Eat small meals often, if necessary, at midnight plus a sugar drink.
3, intravenous injection of glucose 50% of low blood sugar 40-60ml to rescue the most commonly used and effective method. If the condition is not serious, still water, causing serious damage to brain function, you can quickly relieve the symptoms, state of mind immediately clear.
Preventive measures:
1, to avoid over-involving strenuous exercise, eat three meals a day on time.
2, being applied in patients with insulin should be strictly calculated the average dosage of insulin and the proportion of long-acting insulin. Close observation of the use of oral hypoglycemic agents and found that low blood sugar reactions, timely adjustment.
3, if we find more urine during the day, urine for a long time, often at night when hypoglycemia, injection site should be examined whether the malabsorption caused by changing the injection site.
4, diabetes should carry some fruit sugar, biscuits and other foods.
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