When it comes to high blood sugar, the public is no stranger at all. And when it comes to hypoglycemia, many people may never take it seriously. While high blood sugar can cause diabetes, hypoglycemia is no less dangerous than high blood sugar, and may even cause a person to go into a coma. The public may not know much about hypoglycemia. There are even some doctors that have misconceptions about hypoglycemia. How many of these misconceptions about hypoglycemia have you seen?
Myth 1: All people have the same symptoms of hypoglycemia
Panic, shaking hands, sweating, and weakness are symptoms of hypoglycemia that many people are familiar with, except that not everyone experiences the same symptoms when they have hypoglycemia. Adults experience symptoms of hypoglycemia as sympathetic excitability, which means hunger, panic, shaking hands, sweating, weakness, and so on. Older patients with hypoglycemia either have no symptoms or show neurological symptoms, such as speech and behavioral abnormalities, convulsions, hemiparesis, impaired consciousness, coma, etc. These symptoms are often misdiagnosed. These are symptoms that are often misdiagnosed.
Myth 2: Low blood sugar means experiencing hunger pangs
Hunger has long been recognized as the most reliable warning sign of hypoglycemia. Sometimes when friends chat, friends appear hungry, this time will laugh about their own low blood sugar. In fact, hunger is not always caused by hypoglycemia. Some people with insulin deficiency or insulin resistance may experience hunger even when they are in a state of hyperglycemia.
Sugar users may need to take hypoglycemic drugs to control their blood sugar during the treatment process, and because their blood sugar drops too quickly, they may also experience symptoms of hypoglycemia such as panic, sweating, trembling hands, and weakness in the limbs. And in fact, the sugar lover’s blood sugar may still be in the high blood sugar or within the normal range, which is also the problem of certain hypoglycemic drugs after taking. Sugar lovers need to monitor their blood sugar changes and adjust the amount of medication they take.
Myth 3: Hypoglycemia is not harmful
For people with high blood sugar, the biggest trouble is that their blood sugar is too high, and if their blood sugar is often at a higher level, complications will worsen. Therefore, many sugar users are dreaming of lowering their blood sugar, even the lower the better. In fact, the harm of hypoglycemia is no less than that of hyperglycemia, and sometimes hypoglycemia is more serious than the harm brought by hyperglycemia.
The symptoms of hypoglycemia, such as panic, sweating, shaking hands, and weakness of limbs, are only symptoms of mild hypoglycemia, which will be relieved soon when supplemented with high glucose in time, and therefore hypoglycemia is also neglected by many people. Severe hypoglycemia, on the other hand, can cause brain dysfunction, causing people to have blurred consciousness and even coma and death. Chronic hypoglycemia can also lead to cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. While hyperglycemia can be measured in years, hypoglycemia can be measured in seconds, and the damage to the brain is irreversible.
Myth 4: Buns are fine for relieving low blood sugar
When it comes to how to relieve the symptoms of low blood sugar, a friend around me shared his experience. At that time was in the market to buy food, the body appeared symptoms of low blood sugar, just in the steamed bread store nearby, bought two big steamed bread to eat up in a hurry. The appearance of low blood sugar, eat steamed buns or cookies and other starchy food to relieve the symptoms of hypoglycemia, although desirable, but not the best choice.
When the symptoms of hypoglycemia, because the harm of hypoglycemia to the brain is irreversible, this time you need to fight to relieve the symptoms of hypoglycemia. Although starchy foods contain a certain amount of sugar, because starchy foods such as steamed buns belong to the “polysaccharide”, but not as direct as high-sugar foods such as sugar cubes or honey. These high-sugar foods break down into glucose faster after entering the body, which can quickly relieve the symptoms of hypoglycemia and reduce the harm of hypoglycemia to the body.
Myth 5: Hypoglycemia is diagnosed by the same criteria
Hypoglycemia, not hyperglycemia, many people just assume that the diagnostic indicators for hypoglycemia are all the same. In fact, because of the higher risk of hypoglycemia in sugar lovers, hypoglycemia has a greater impact on sugar lovers. For sugar lovers, the indicators of hypoglycemia will be slightly higher than the average person.
The normal value of blood glucose is 3.9~6.1mmol/L. If the blood glucose of a sugar patient is lower than 3.9 mmol/L, it can be diagnosed as hypoglycemia, which should be paid attention to immediately. The blood sugar of ordinary people is only diagnosed as hypoglycemia when it is lower than 2.8 mmol/L.
Diabetes is scary and hypoglycemia is even scarier. We have to pay attention to high blood sugar, not to ignore low blood sugar. Sugar lovers, more importance should be attached to hypoglycemia. We should all be aware of the misconceptions about hypoglycemia.