The team from Chellaram Diabetes Institute in discussion with Dr Pratik Chaudhary explains how regular monitoring can help notice and prevent hypoglycaemia in time. Hypoglycaemia unawareness Hypoglycaemia is a kind of stress and if the body gets stressed repeatedly, it decides to ignore that stress. During hypoglycaemia, the body produces warning signs but if events of hypoglycaemia occur repeatedly, over many years, one may lose the ability to recognise hypoglycaemia. This is called hypoglycaemia unawareness.
The body produces different types of symptoms at different sugar levels. So, the symptoms of tremors, shaking, sweating and palpitations occur typically when blood sugar levels are between 70-80 mg/dL. Only when the sugar levels drop to 50 mg/dL is when the body produces neurological symptoms such as confusion, sleepiness, tiredness, difficulty speaking, difficulty walking and…
