Symptoms and treatment of hypoglycemia

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The only energy source of human brain is glucose, so hypoglycemia has the greatest impact on the nervous system. If not treated in time, it can lead to irreversible damage to brain tissue in a short time, even death. What is particularly worrying is that when diabetic patients have hypoglycemia reaction, the patients and their families often do not know what happened in the end, and blindly let the patients take hypoglycemic drugs according to their experience, the result is counterproductive, making the disease worse. So, let's talk about the symptoms and treatment of hypoglycemia.

Symptoms and treatment of hypoglycemia

(1) If only mild hypoglycemia, patients conscious, can eat a few candies, a few biscuits, or drink half a cup of sugar water, can quickly correct hypoglycemia effect, generally more than ten minutes after hypoglycemia symptoms will disappear; After eating the above food, you can eat some rice or steamed bread, dried tofu and other food to prevent hypoglycemia;

(2) If there is no effect after the above methods or the patient is unconscious, they should be sent to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately, and take the hypoglycemic drugs that the patient often takes, so that the doctor can understand the condition.

(3) Patients with severe hypoglycemia should not be fed food and should be sent to the hospital immediately. After being sent to the hospital, blood glucose was measured immediately, and 20 mg of 50% glucose was injected intravenously. After the symptoms were relieved and conscious, glucose could be infused intravenously to prevent the recurrence of hypoglycemia. Especially for some patients with hypoglycemia caused by oral hypoglycemic drugs, after recovery from treatment, they may still enter coma again and need to be closely observed for four or five days.

matters needing attention

Hypoglycemia patients can carry candy or chocolate, when the attack can be improvised or usually drink Cyclocarya paliurus recuperation.