Low blood sugar will not only produce strange side effects on normal people, but even diabetics who must control blood sugar may not necessarily be healthier with lower blood sugar levels. Physicians warn that there are many examples of diabetic patients who have exhausted all kinds of severe measures to reduce the value to the standard value, but almost died in the end. (If it is too low, it will kill people, if it is too high, it will kill people. What should the patient do?)
Fifty-two-year-old Mr. Chen has suffered from type 2 diabetes for three years. In order to control his blood sugar, in addition to taking medicine for a long time to control his blood sugar, he usually works hard to exercise and control his diet. Unexpectedly, on the way to climb a mountain by bicycle, his whole body trembled because of hypoglycemia. It took him a minute to take out the candy from under the seat cushion, and it took him a long time to unwrap the wrapping paper; although he finally sent the candy to the Mouth, but it was too late, and fell unconscious on the spot. (This is stupid.)
Mr. Chen said that his mother, who was also a diabetic, passed away while taking a bath. He said: "I always thought that the lower the blood sugar, the better. I didn't know that hypoglycemia would also kill me. After this incident, when I recalled my deceased mother, I realized that my mother also passed out because of low blood sugar. It's too late." (This is stupid.)
Diabetes is the chronic disease with the largest number of sufferers in China. According to the latest survey released by the National Institutes of Health, the prevalence of diabetes has reached 9%. Second, one out of every ten Taiwanese suffers from the disease; among them, men over the age of 65 are the most serious, and almost one out of every four men over the age of 65 suffers from diabetes. (Why don't you explain where the cause of the disease comes from?)
What is worrying is that many diabetics think that the lower the blood sugar, the better, and take strict blood sugar control, which leads to hypoglycemia and more serious side effects. Cai Shize, an attending physician in the Department of Metabolism of Taipei Veterans General Hospital, said that many people with diabetes have a misconception that the lower the blood sugar, the better. (Why didn't you explain it so clearly before?)
Cai Shize emphasized that blood sugar is like a knife with two sides, and if it is too high, it will also cause irreparable risks. He explained that the treatment of diabetes is currently at a bottleneck. It is reasonable to say that the lower the patient's blood sugar, the better. Below; for elderly patients with cardiovascular disease, if the glycated hemoglobin is controlled below seven, it is easy to increase the risk of death. (Western medicine is wrong today. What should patients do? Western medicine says that too high blood sugar can lead to heart disease and stroke, and now it says that too low blood sugar can increase the risk of death. What should patients do?)
Regret for not being able to save
In February last year, the American Diabetes Association published a study pointing out that if the glycated hemoglobin in patients with cardiovascular disease and diabetes is controlled to six, after four or five years of follow-up, the mortality rate is much higher than that of patients with only a history of diabetes. Cai Shize said, don't underestimate hypoglycemia, if the patient does not have time to supplement sugar, it will also endanger life. Because glucose is the only energy source for the heart, once it is lacking, it will cause great harm to the originally damaged heart.
Xu Huiheng, chairman of the Diabetes Health Education Association of the Republic of China, pointed out that those with mild symptoms of hypoglycemia may experience dizziness and hand tremors. If they do not replenish sugar quickly, they may become unconscious, even coma, and accidents may occur. Clinically, it has also been found that hypoglycemia may also cause strange behaviors; when someone goes out to work, suddenly hypoglycemia, they go out of the house and turn back, because they forget where they are going and what they are doing. (In this case, should we lower blood sugar?)
