Hypoglycaemia

Hypoglycemia means low blood glucose, or blood sugar. Your body needs glucose to have enough energy. After you eat, your blood absorbs glucose. If you eat more sugar than your body needs, your muscles, and liver store the extra. When your blood sugar begins to fall, a hormone tells your liver to release glucose.In most people, this raises blood sugar. If it doesn't, you have hypoglycemia, and your blood sugar can be dangerously low. Signs include HungerShakinessDizzinessConfusionDifficulty speakingFeeling anxious or weakIn people with diabetes, hypoglycemia is often a side effect of diabetes medicines. Eating or drinking something with carbohydrates can help. If it happens often, your health care provider may need to change your treatment plan.You can also have low blood sugar without having diabetes. Causes include certain medicines or diseases, hormone or enzyme deficiencies, and tumors. Laboratory tests can help find the cause. The kind of treatment depends on why you have low blood sugar.NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases

Disease Alternative Name

hypoglycemia

low blood sugar

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Dr. Sanjay N Jain

Internal Medicine

Diabetes in Special Population - Elder patient with Glycaemic variability

Elderly patients with diabetes require treatments that can prevent diabetic complications by stabilizing glycaemic varia...See More

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Dr. Ashish Nair

Dr Ashish Nair MBBS MD IDCCM FIRA CICCM "a doctor by profession here to cure pain and spread smiles"

New patient K/c/o dm/htn/ihd/dcmp ef-15-20% H/o awmi lysed with stk--- ptca to rca in 2009 Presented with seizure and bleed from oral cavity Received from emd on noradrenaline at 24/vasopressin at 2.4 On 10lit o2 tapered to 4ml/hr Conci...See More

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Dr. Rajeev Gupta

NEONATAL MENINGITIS PRESENTS WITHOUT ANTERIOR FONTANELLE BULGE OR FULL ?? 21 DAYS BABY ON EXAMINATION LETHARGIC HYPOGLYCAEMIA ONE EPISODE RESPIRATION IRREGULAR CONVULSION TWO EPISODE . PROVISIONAL DIAGNOSIS LONS CRP 14 MG . PLEASE COMMENT

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Febrile Seizures

Febrile seizures are events associated with fever in the absence of an intracranial infection, hypoglycaemia, or an acut...See More

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Harsh Vadiwala

Undergraduate Student

A teenager who is sick and skipped night meal due to under poverty status. She presented with coma and died unexpectedly within 48 hrs of medical treatment in emergency ward. Post-mortem investigation revealed a hypoglycaemia and fatty l...See More

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Dr. Mahesh Surabattuni

Endocrinology

Down titration of anti diabetic drugs

A 45 year old male, 175cm, 85kg wt, with pot belly, is a k/c/o diabetes for the past 6 years,he came to my opd with No complaints but FBS-180, PPBS-250,HBA1C 9%,, at his first visit to my OPD he was on Glymocomet Gp2 Bd and vildagliptin 50 ...See More

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Dr. Sepuri Krishna Mohan

Endocrinologist & Diabetologist, Sepuri Diabetes and Endocrine Centre, Kurnool from the last 25 yrs.

Dear Mahesh, Thanks a lot fir for tagging me to answer your question. Coming to the case, continue all the Medicines as it is as everything is fine. Don't with draw any medication for Diabetes unless the patient C/O Hypoglycemic episodes...

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Dr. Rakesh Dhir

Internal Medicine

Recurrent Hypoglycaemia

52 F diabetic on OHA presented in hypoglycaemia Blood sugar 45mg% which was corrected in casualty Patients daughter insisted that patient be shown to a senior doctor because of recurrent hypoglycaemia CAREFUL HISTORY TAKING revealed tha...See More

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Dr. Rakesh Dhir

Internal Medicine

Lesson to be learnt. WE SHOULD EDUCATE THE PATIENT ABOUT THE DRUGS HE USES eg in the case patient was on gliclazide duration of action 12 hrs so he has to b taught that HE. Has to use it in BD

Dr. Amit B Singh

Cardiology

A Pt come in emergency room with c/o breathlessness with past history of ATT . and another complain is suddenly hypoglycaemia <60mg/dl occurs two or three times in day. CBC is wNR KFT is also wNR LFT is NL. Basic Cause of suddenly Hypoglyc...See More

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Dr. Bhimjibhai Aghara

General Practice

Bolus injection of hypertonic glucose should be avoided in a infant having hypoglycaemia, why?

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Dr. Bhimjibhai Aghara

General Practice

Bolus injection of hypertonic glucose causes hyperinsulinemia and it further causes rebound hypoglycemia

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Dr. Mallikarjun Urmundal

Pediatrics

6 year old Muslim child male brought to A suburb paediatric clinic for minor illness of fever,lethargy and vomitting..parents concerned about repeated seizures in the past for the past 3-4 years..and noted to be associated hypoglycaemia ......See More

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Dr. Mallikarjun Urmundal

Pediatrics

It is a case of fatty acid metabolic disorder,MCAD. An autosomal recessive disorder..clinical presentation is typical...minor illnesses can precipitate hypoglycemia.