hello everyone I am Dr. Ahmet Ergin founder of Sugarmds.com
we are going to talk about hypoglycemia symptoms what is hypoglycemia it is low
blood sugar it's the medical definition for low blood sugar so how do you feel
when you have low blood sugar a lot of people do not know how do they
really feel so sometimes you may feel a dizzy and irritable and you may not even
know why you feel that way you may think that your personality is changing but it
could be your low blood sugar so let's review the symptoms of hyperglycemia
which is low blood sugar right now and in the next video we will talk about how
to treat this okay so it is divided into two number one is adrenergic symptoms so
why do we call this adrenergic symptoms because it comes from your adrenal gland
it is adrenaline induced so when you have low blood sugar your body gives a
panic reaction and it releases adrenaline response so it's the same
reaction when you see a lion in the middle of a forest what do you feel like
your heart race your your your heart is gonna race you're gonna start shaking
you're gonna start sweating unless you're a hero or some sort right so if
you're like face to face with a line you're squealing a bunch of Underland
and then next thing you know you hit to run right so you need to get pumped up
for the energy to run now your body does not differentiate between this fear
response or hypoglycemia response it is a panic response so when your blood
sugars are going low your adrenaline goes up and that gives you excessive
sweating you may feel hot you may feel shaky your
heart may race and all these symptoms are we call them are generic symptoms so
it may be subtle as well if your blood sugars are not down to 30 but let's say
you are down to 70 you may actually feel like oh I cannot
feel hot hey do you feel hot do you feel higher but no I'm fine then it's better
for you your blood Sugar's right and then
suddenly you may feel like you know what's going on I'm Chris clammy I'm
sweaty you know kind of irritable you know you may want to check your blood
sugar at that time so don't wait don't think twice check your blood sugar if
you doubt about it now the second symptom second part of symptoms could be
could be neurological so sometimes neurological symptoms are
subtle and it could be just dizziness it can be irritability as we discussed it
can be just a little bit of a confusion or a foggy mind then you know that these
symptoms are considered neurological symptoms and you may want to check your
blood sugars if it is really severe and if your blood sugar drops really low
suddenly then you may actually feel like that you may not be able to do anything
so sometimes people will have for example total disability so you may be
able to see but you may not be able to hear or you may be able to hear but you
may not be able to speak these are disabling symptoms sometimes you know
that you have a low blood sugar and you need to fix it right you may want to
grab something sweet but your body may not allow you to do that so you may be
poor most paralyzed in the worst case scenario you may totally pass out and
and that's called severe hypoglycemia so these are the severe neurological
symptoms sometimes you know you may have seen this in your relatives as well
they will zoom out they may not be able to respond to you and if they are
feeling weird behaving weird you better check their blood sugar so because at
that point if you're the patient you're not gonna be able to help yourself
so also educate others of what a hypoglycemia is and how it feels like so
that they know so this happened actually my mother has diabetes and one time she
had a low blood sugar and she was trying to tell my father but she wasn't able to
so I really hate hypoglycemia because I know how it feels I hear all the time
from people how it feels so you need to emit
recognize the symptoms of hyperglycemia in order to treat and get out of it now
in the next video we are going to talk about how to treat hyperglycemia there
are a lot of misconceptions and mistakes people do all the time for treating
hyperglycemia so give a thumbs up to this video and we'll see in the next one
have a great day