Hypoglycemia Symptoms

Hypoglycemia Symptoms - The following symptoms may be signs of hypoglycemia and hypoglycemia often occur together with:
* Strong yawn
* Weakness
* Fatigue
* Headache
* Tremor
* Palpitation
* Blood pressure fluctuations
* Cold sweat
* Nasal congestion
* Nightmares (during sleep)
* Restlessness
* Depression, but also aggression
* Difficulty concentrating
* Language disorders
* Blurred vision
* Cramps
* Impairment of consciousness to unconsciousness

Glucose tolerance test (GTT)
The body tries in the blood glucose homeostasis, the blood sugar levels and thus the central power supply to remain within narrow limits. If the blood glucose levels outside of the body's limits, it can cause damage, especially in the brain occur. This is in your body is not unlike the energy supply of electrical equipment: If there is frequently exceeded the permitted limits will reduce the life expectancy - you just like, for example, your television.
If blood sugar is higher than the allowable limit of the body, the body tries to distribute the excess blood sugar through the kidneys. One can then determine that the urine contains sugar. The first signs of diabetes are often excessive thirst and frequent urination.
The advantage of this medicine: This circumstance can be measured easily. Therefore, diabetes is a disease easily detectable by any physician.
It is different from hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia can possibly be detected by a more extended hour glucose tolerance test (GTT), but here too the results are inconclusive. For it seems to be that the control centers in the brain (hypothalamus, brain stem) to react with less hypoglycemia on the current blood sugar levels, as the speed at which it falls.
Furthermore, the switching points in the brain respond to hypoglycaemia with increased release of adrenaline, which causes the blood sugar level is artificially brought into the air. This, too, results can be produced that are ultimately not very meaningful.
In the section What is Hypoglycemia? Hypoglycemia was able to hold as the inability of the organism, a blood sugar level alone without abnormal secretion of stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, and without an additional food intake within narrow limits defined. There can be no assurance that the sympathetic countermeasures can be adequately quantified in an extended glucose tolerance test.
A good description of the GTT is found, for example, in Martin L. Budd: "Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycaemia)".
A typical output for a GTT suffering from hypoglycemia is concerned, the following figure (adapted from Figure 13 from Wolfgang Lutz "Life without bread" ': A case for many). The bottom axis is time in hours after consuming 50g glucose in tea.
It should be obvious that such a development (sometimes several times a day and over the years) can not be healthy. Also, an electrical appliance is hardly forgive, if the supply voltage should fluctuate several times a day between 300V and 100V.
Quite different is the situation, however, after consuming 50g of protein from lean beef (see Nutrition and Metabolism). The left white curve (or line) shows the blood sugar levels in healthy people, the overlying yellow curve of the type 2 diabetic patients.

Hypoglycemia is not an official disease
Due to the difficult detectability is hypoglycemia - unlike diabetes - not an official disease. It is not clearly measurable, and is similar to the occasional low blood pressure or headaches dismissed as an ailment. For the brain but is low blood sugar levels may in the short term even more serious than a high blood sugar levels: Many electronic devices can be at higher voltages well are still doing (with the risk of myocardial infarction, or spoken in electrical engineering: Overheating with burnout of components), at lower voltages but no longer necessary.
Simple tests are therefore currently not very meaningful, because hypoglycemia is not a physical condition, which expresses the fact that occasionally abnormally low blood sugar levels are reached, which can then be detected and, if necessary. Hypoglycemia is not a momentary state ("Today you have hypoglycemia, not last night") but a lack of adaptability, as well as the migraine is a disease not a momentary lack of adaptability and state. An acute attack of migraine is a current state, but not the disease itself migraine
Due to the lack of meaningful test methods, it is therefore probably currently still much more efficient to diagnose hypoglycemia in normal hand experience of the patient, similar to a diagnosis of migraine also occurs. This could possibly serve a simple questionnaire.

How can you even tell if you suffer from hypoglycemia?
In the following three tests are cited that deal with the same phenomenon but with slightly varying terminology. In addition, we have contributed a further test that is more focused on the topic of migraine. All tests are of course no substitute evidence, and no conclusive diagnosis. However, the results can be interpreted as a sign that they are suffering from hypoglycemia (or carbohydrate addictions, carbohydrate intolerance).