Diabetes alert invisible killer
Posted on January 13, 2010
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This is a place in the large New Year’s Eve thing. Day, every household together for reunion dinners, Wuhan First Hospital emergency an endocrine wards are due to hypoglycemia in diabetic patients admitted to hospital.
Due to the timely rescue, the elderly finally turned the corner. Asked the families of its incidence after I discovered that his father for many years with diabetes, with insulin therapy-based day, routinely beat
Of insulin. Members of the family is not in place, the delay meals for the elderly began to emerge from the hunger, palpitation, sweating, trembling, gradually developed to a state of mind exception to the coma. By family members rushed to hospital when the blood sugar is only 1.9mol/l– typical hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemia occur for many reasons, such as the insulin dose greatly excessive sulfonylurea oral hypoglycemic agents, to forget or delay a meal, exercise than usual great time drinking on an empty stomach, some patients with type Ⅱ diabetes mellitus at low blood glucose for the initial symptoms, and so on. The clinical manifestations are: range from sweating (in palm of the hand or forehead-based), dizziness, palpitation, trembling, hunger, fatigue, limb soft, blurred vision, unsteady gait, bizarre behavior, personality changes; re-orientation was lost ability, seizures, loss of consciousness, coma. Hypoglycemia is sometimes difficult to be detected, resulting in the absence of low blood sugar aura of a sudden loss of consciousness, which is a very dangerous low blood sugar, called hypoglycemia unaware, often occurs in a long history, associated with diabetic neuropathy with some of the elderly.
Upon the occurrence of low blood sugar, and timely treatment is very important. Most patients can be corrected soon eating sugary food, such as 2 ~ 4 candy or sugar, 5 to 6 biscuits, half a glass of juice or sugary drinks, 1 tablespoon sugar or honey, and so on. The above self, lighter, low blood sugar usually ease within 15 minutes. If not alleviated, may be eating these foods, not mitigation, should be to the hospital for treatment.
These patients is the result of insulin injections after the meal time should be unable to eat, and in the early hypoglycemia are not her family managed to find, correct, so that sicker, sent to the hospital.
Expert in this special reminders, family reunion, when like him to care for diabetic patients so that patients in the prevention of high blood sugar, while avoiding the occurrence of hypoglycemia.
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