What happens when a hypoglycemic reaction gets out of control?
The problem is is in diabetes sometimes the insulin dose is so much that you don't have time to treat it or what happens is you're not carrying sugar with you, which people with diabetes all should do. Or, in people who have had diabetes for long enough they lose warning signs like that, and so what happens is the blood sugar level keeps getting lower and lower and lower, so instead of being a hundred, it becomes seventy, then it becomes fifty. And below fifty people tend to lose the ability to think and see normally, and eventually they'll lose consciousness, and that's what we call a sever blood sugar reaction, it's when you are, lost consciousness and someone else has to revive you, they either have to call the paramedics or give you an injection of something called Glucagon, and those are really awful reaction for the people who have them. We try really hard adjust the insulin, to do what we can to prevent those reactions, but they still do occur. So when those happen, if someone's prepared and has Glucagon that can be given, sometimes patients will have seizures at that point, not everybody but some people will, and like all seizures they tend to pass, but again, the paramedics generally come, patients are treated and then they'll get better. So they're disturbing events and everybody who's on insulin or anything that can cause their blood sugars to go too low, some of the oral agents should carry fast acting sugar with them, say Glucose tablets or Glucose gel or little cartons of juice, or whatever they need to bring their blood sugar back up so they don't get those severe reactions.
