{"id":1286,"date":"2021-05-24T11:10:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T05:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drdalaldiabetes.com\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2021-10-15T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T07:09:15","slug":"why-am-i-getting-low-sugars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drdalaldiabetes.com\/why-am-i-getting-low-sugars\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I getting Low Sugars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This patient is hypertensive and Diabetic for 40 years. Recovered from Covid-19 two weeks back (during Covid his sugars went up to 484mg\/dl<\/em>).  His Daughter contacted Dr Deepak Dalal<\/a> for management of her father’s <\/a>diabetes<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he approached us, he was having one major trouble with low blood sugars and at the first visit itself, his insulin injection doses were reduced, as per his readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Insulin injecting technique<\/a> was reviewed and revised. One would wonder that the patient is taking insulin for so many years how would he go wrong ??? but most people on long term insulin tend to commit many mistakes while injecting, considering it as a casual procedure and not taking care of the fine pointers like storage of insulin, rotation of insulin injection sites, priming of the needle, temperature of insulin and in some conditions even the expiry date of the insulin. His dietary pattern was revised, with food at regular intervals and made nutritionally balanced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The patient witnessed a low sugar attack on the 3rd of October which he self-treated by eating chocolate. Is eating chocolate the right thing? No!! He needs something sweeter and simpler ;)...SUGAR… Plain Table Sugar<\/strong>, is the medicine or the saviour in times of low blood sugar attack (which technically is Blood sugars below 70mg\/dl). Chocolate is made up of milk, sugar, cocoa powder, cocoa butter\/cacao<\/strong> butter<\/strong>, Milk Solids, Emulsifier, Vegetable Fats etc making it a source of slow-release of carb, which means it would take a long duration of time to release instant sugar and energy, something we don’t want during a low sugar episode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The correct way of treating hypoglycemia given below:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n