Hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia results when your body's glucose is used up too rapidly, when glucose is released into the bloodstream more slowly than is needed by your body, or when excessive insulin is released into the bloodstream.
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Hypoglycemia in the newborn can be caused by conditions that: lower the amount of glucose in the bloodstream, prevent or lessen storage of glucose, use up glycogen stores (sugar stored in the liver), inhibit the use of glucose by the body.
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Hypoglycemia is commonly associated with diabetes. However, a wide variety of conditions, many of them rare, can cause low blood sugar in people without diabetes. Like fever, hypoglycemia isn't a disease itself, it's an indicator of a health problem.
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Diabetes - or diabetes mellitus chronic disorder of glucose (sugar) metabolism caused by inadequate production or use of insulin, a hormone produced in specialized cells (beta cells in the islets of Lange...
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Hypoglycemia occurs when your body's blood sugar, or glucose, is abnormally low. The term insulin shock is used to describe severe hypoglycemia that results in unconsciousness.
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Hypoglycemia is most common in people with diabetes. In these people, hypoglycemia occurs because of some imbalance between their dose of diabetic medication, especially insulin, and their diet or exercise level.
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Hypoglycemia can be inherited, but more often it is brought on by an inadequate diet (and is then called functional hypoglycemia). However, there are several other physical problems which can weaken adrenal function and help bring on hypoglycemia.
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Hypoglycemia after a meal
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HYPOGLYCEMIA: Low blood sugar.
HYPOTENSION: Low blood pressure.
HYPOTHESIS: A specific statement or proposition, stated in a testable (researchable) form, predicting a particular relationship among multiple variables.
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For mild hypoglycemia, you should drink a small glass of fruit juice, eat hard candy, or take a sugar tablet. A severe attack is an emergency. Make sure your family and friends know the signs and will get you to an emergency room if an attack occurs.
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Blood sugar: Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) is the predominant finding in a number of inborn errors of metabolism.
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Severe low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
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An insulin reaction is an excessively low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia), usually lower than 50 mg/dL.
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Glucose may be consumed or given IV to increase the level of blood glucose when the level falls too low (hypoglycemia).
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Blood chemistry tests shows low glucose (hypoglycemia)
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Determine whether an abnormally low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) is present. A test to measure blood levels of a protein called C-peptide may be done along with a blood glucose test to determine the cause of hypoglycemia.
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Blood glucose should not be too low (hypoglycemia) or too high (hyperglycemia). The body usually keeps blood glucose within a certain range by using stored glucose when needed, or storing the glucose when it is not needed.
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Some patients develop hypoglycemia when taking this drug, but the episodes are generally mild. The drug should not be used by people with Type 1 diabetes.
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The tumor makes too much of the hormone insulin and causes the body to store sugar instead of burning the sugar for energy. This causes too little sugar in the blood, a condition called hypoglycemia.
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