Symptoms of low blood sugar, two common types

Low blood sugar is a complication that occurs during the treatment of diabetes. Early symptoms include palpitations, sweating, fatigue, nausea and vomiting, and pale complexion. It can be treated with diet therapy. A reasonable diet is very important. Jujubes, longans, and lotus seeds can be eaten frequently.

1. Symptoms

Hypoglycemia is divided into two types: (1) Adrenergic symptoms include sweating, nervousness, trembling, weakness, dizziness, palpitations, and hunger, which are attributed to increased sympathetic nerve activity and increased adrenaline release (which may occur in patients who have had their adrenal glands removed). (2) Manifestations of the central nervous system include confusion, abnormal behavior (which may be mistaken for drunkenness), visual impairment, stupor, coma, and epilepsy. Hypoglycemic coma is often accompanied by a decrease in body temperature. The rate of blood sugar decrease in cases causing sympathetic nervous system symptoms is faster than that in cases causing central nervous system symptoms, but the degree of hypoglycemia is mild. Regardless of the type, there are obvious individual differences in blood sugar levels.

2. Diet therapy for hypoglycemia

1. Eat both meat and vegetables, and combine meals reasonably to ensure that you take in comprehensive and sufficient nutrients, so that your physique will gradually become stronger from being weak.

2. If you have anemia accompanied by low red blood cell count and insufficient hemoglobin, you should eat more foods rich in protein, iron, copper, folic acid, vitamin B12, vitamin C and other "hematopoietic raw materials", such as pork liver, egg yolk, lean meat, milk, fish, shrimp, shellfish, soybeans, tofu, brown sugar and fresh vegetables and fruits. Correcting anemia helps increase cardiac output, improve blood supply to the brain, raise blood pressure and eliminate adverse symptoms caused by low blood pressure.

3. Fruits such as lotus seeds, longans, jujubes, and mulberries have the power to nourish the heart and blood, strengthen the spleen and nourish the brain, and can be eaten frequently.

4. People with poor appetite should eat appropriate amounts of appetite-stimulating foods and condiments, such as ginger, onions, vinegar, sauce, sugar, pepper, chili, beer, wine, etc.

5. In contrast to hypertension, this disease should adopt an appropriate high-sodium, high-cholesterol diet. Sodium chloride (i.e. table salt) needs to be consumed at 12-15 grams per day. Eating foods high in cholesterol such as brain, liver, eggs, butter, fish roe, and pork bones in moderation can help increase blood cholesterol.