What is Diabetic Seizure?
Diabetes has shown that it can lead to several serious complications such as comas and seizures. When your body gets from your brain several dissimilar signals which opposes each other at one particular time, a diabetic seizure happens. Such seizures are usually the result of several problems which can be low or high blood sugar levels. It is a condition which is sometimes serious enough to bring death to the affected person.
Even though an individual suffering from a diabetic seizure can appear to be alert, the person is frequently unaware to a certain extent of what is happening in his or her surroundings. So, such a person is unable to give any information to those people wishing to help or give treatment. Unless the people helping the affected person have experience in handling such a condition, emergency medical officials’ assistance ought to be sought immediately.
Symptoms
Diabetic seizures resulting from low or high blood sugar levels exhibit many different symptoms. Frequently, such a seizure causes sudden and violent convulsions but such symptoms are not always exhibited. Other usual symptoms seen are non-awareness, sweating, confusion and muscle weakness. Depending upon the kind of symptoms that are caused, the many kinds of seizure are put under various categories. No known cause is attributed to most of them.
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Although most people link the convulsions and shaking to seizure, there are some kinds which exhibit no such symptoms. Sometimes, a person suffering from a seizure may have vision problems or get a strange smell that is only available to him. There are times when seizures will not stop unless treated but there are also seizures that last hardly ten seconds.
A diabetic seizure caused by low blood sugar levels ought not to be fed any food but that is the usual mistake committed by many people trying to help the affected person. Since the affected person is not aware of what is happening, there is the possibility that 
he or she may choke on the food and cause another problem. Glucagon should be given immediately to the person if it is available.
A diabetic coma can occur due to excessively high or low blood sugar levels. The possibility of death is high if an individual goes into a diabetic coma. Therefore, emergency services ought to be requested for immediately. It can be an insulin shock if low sugar levels are the cause of the coma.