Hypoglycemia vs seizures

These are the main symptoms of hypoglycemia.

Hypoglycemia is a condition that occurs when the patient is suffering from low blood sugar level. It can be brought on by stress, fatigue, by skipping meals or not having a balance diet. If a patient is feeling confused, is pale, weak, dizzy and have a blurry vision, act immediately by providing him with a source of sugar that will quickly raise his blood sugar level such as: hard candy, orange juice, glucose tablets or some energy gel with water like the runners use during exercise.

If the blood sugar level is very low, it can provoke seizures, coma, brain damage or even death.
If the patient is helped out right away, such health consequences can usually be avoided easily.

If you have any doubts concerning the possibility of being affected by this condition, consult your physician, see him for a check up and have him send you for a glucose test just to make sure that if you are indeed affected, steps to avoid problems can be taken rapidly.

What is a glucose test? You must not eat or drink anything since midnight the night before. Your appointment should usually be in the morning. Make the necessary arrangements to stay there for approximately three hours. Then the first thing that they do is to take a blood sample and test the blood sugar level. Then they give you a beverage high in sugar content that may remind you of a very sweet tasting orange soda. Then each hour, for the first two hours, they take a blood sample and test it out. Then, for the last hour, they take a blood sample each half hour. Then, it is lunch time! Usually, you can have the results within a week or so. Please note, that sometimes this test may lightly differ but it should be quite similar.

What about seizures? Your brain is a muscle and like any other muscle, to get the amount of energy to work efficiently it needs both water and sugar. When the blood sugar level gets too low, the brain's reaction is to send a distressed message to the rest of the body. As of a result of sugar starvation, your body reacts by having seizures. Beware, sometimes you can feel them coming, other times, they may sneak up on you. You better be prepared and always have either on you or with you something that you can quickly ingest to raise your blood sugar level in case of having an hypoglycemia episode.