Low Blood Sugar and High Blood Sugar Symptoms
Symptoms of diabetes can be managed. However, it is necessary to understand how different hypoglycemic reactions vs hyperglycemic reactions, their treatment and symptoms can be. A blood sugar test can certainly indicate the levels of your blood glucose if you suffer from diabetes. It is essential that diabetics discuss with their doctors how the two reactions can be managed, particularly when they are prescribed with sugar reducing medicine together with insulin or insulin only.
see Insulin Drug Interactions.
see List Of Insulin Type.
Hypoglycemia
The term for low blood glucose level is hypoglycemia. The ADA (American Diabetes Association) gives hypoglycemic symptoms as :
- Seizures
- Clumsy movements
- Pale skin
- Headache
- Hunger
- Sweating
- Dizziness
- Shakiness
- Behavior change or sudden moodiness
- Numbness at the mouth
- Confusion or difficulty paying attention
However, there are patients who experience none of these symptoms although there may be some with one, or even two, of the listed symptoms. Hypoglycemia must be given immediate treatment to prevent the patient going into a coma which then requires emergency treatment.
see Hypoglycemia – Low Blood Sugar.
Hyperglycemia
The term for high blood glucose level is hyperglycemia. The ADA (American Diabetes Association) gives hyperglycemia symptoms as :
- Extremely high blood sugar.
- High content of sugar in the urine.
- Frequent urination.
- Unquenchable thirst.
When blood glucose is high, it is necessary for the diabetic to consult his medical practitioner on how his diabetes can be better managed with changes in medicine or diet. Prolonged high levels of blood glucose can cause diabetes complications, like kidney disease, eye damage or neuropathy.
Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Of Hyperglycemia -Video Guide
Important to check
When patients experience symptoms which indicate high or low blood sugar, it is necessary that these diabetes patients test their blood glucose, not just at those times but also as frequently as directed by their medical practitioner. When checking blood glucose, results must be recorded and made available to the health-care team so that changes or developments can be studied to enable decisions to be made on possible changes in medicine or diet in order to manage diabetes better. The ADA (American Diabetes Association) gives normal pre-meal blood glucose as between 70mg/dL – 130mg/dL and normal post-meal blood glucose as less than 180mg/dL.