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What is a 'hypo' for people with Diabetes?
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What is a 'hypo' for people with Diabetes?

Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse, talks about how people with Diabetes experience having a 'hypo'. She providers valuable ways of recognising a 'hypo'.

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Hypo is when the blood glucose levels go less than 4 and people get signs or symptoms of hypo. They feel shaky, sweaty and sometimes they're confused. They get tingling sensation in their tongue or in their lip something is not right person feels like they are having sinking sensation and or sometimes if they don't feel the other person can look at them and this they go pale as well the other person look at this person is like getting a little bit confused they can get temperamental they can get angry so these are the symptoms. And can you get them both in type 1 and type 2? Yeah they're both yeah they're more common in type 1 and type 2. So the reason for high cause are for type 1 like if they have eaten but if they have given too much insulin according to their food they have miscalculated yeah so they've eaten less but they're given the same amount of insulin. Sometimes patients have given insulin and they are not able to finish their food and then later on they can get hypo. Exercise can cause hypo. Exercise effect can last in your body for 24 hours. So it depends again what kind of exercise patient is doing. So some people are very sensitive to insulin even if they walk 15 minutes they can get hypo. Alcohol also affects. So what happened with the people, those who have alcoholic drinks, blood glucose level go high first, then they can have delay effect and they can get hypo because alcohol and food, they both get metabolized in the liver. So when we have alcoholic drink, our liver forgets our food, it will start working on alcohol. It gives high sugar first, then it goes hypo later on. So people have to be careful when they have alcoholic drinks, make sure they have food with it. So a reason of hypo are again, we talk about exercise, not eating enough, giving insulin. The other one is the people those are insulin injection sites if they keep giving injection at the same place they form a lump insulin get collected there and it will absorb unpredictably and then can cause hypo anytime. So that's why rotation of injection sites is very important.

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