Contents:
- Medical Video: Five Signs That Could be Symptoms of Diabetes
- What is insulin overdose?
- What are the characteristics of a person experiencing insulin overdose?
- What should be done when you experience symptoms of insulin overdose?
Medical Video: Five Signs That Could be Symptoms of Diabetes
To help maintain normal levels of the hormone insulin in the body and maintain glucose levels in the blood, diabetic patients will usually get insulin therapy. However, the use of insulin therapy in diabetic patients, must be done carefully, because there is a danger of insulin overdose.
What is insulin overdose?
Insulin overdose occurs when the insulin level you enter into the body exceeds the body's needs. Excess insulin levels will trigger hypoglycemia or decrease blood glucose levels to reach very low levels. This can be quite dangerous and even deadly if it is not immediately detected and resolved.
Basically, there is no patent formula in determining the insulin levels needed by a diabetic patient. There are quite a number of variables that need to be considered to ensure the insulin levels needed by the body. That is why those who have been decided to routinely carry out insulin therapy are required to check and consult regularly to monitor insulin needs that need to be injected regularly.
While the condition of hypoglycemia is a condition that is actually as serious as hyperglycemia. When glucose levels in the blood are too low, the cells in the body will lack glucose intake and eventually experience a lack of energy. This will affect all bodily functions, ranging from brain performance, organ function, nervous system to motor and cognitive functions.
Hypoglycemia is a condition when the level of glucose dissolved in the blood is at a very low level, or about below the range of 70mg / dL. At this level the cells in the body will lack glucose supply which results in a lack of energy sources.
What are the characteristics of a person experiencing insulin overdose?
When you are experiencing an insulin overdose, you may experience a number of complaints like the following:
- Feeling confused and confused mind, even having difficulty understanding other people's words
- Down mood, irritability or feeling very sad, sometimes feeling depressed
- Feeling restless, restless, cold sweat and not calm
- Feeling weak, to feel your legs and arms tremble
- Feeling difficult to stand up straight as if your leg is losing strength to support the body
- A feeling of dizziness in the head appears accompanied by the effects of a sometimes blurred vision
- Irregular heartbeat accompanied by shortened breath
What should be done when you experience symptoms of insulin overdose?
If shortly after you carry out insulin therapy and you feel a number of symptoms as described above, immediately take several measures to reduce the risk of more severe hypoglycemia. Immediately consume easily absorbed carbohydrates such as warm sweet tea, sweets, warm honey water, raisins, or fruit juice.
If after you carry out an emergency hypoglycemia procedure and you still find a condition that does not improve, immediately contact the medical person and bring the patient to the hospital for intensive action. In cases of serious hypoglycemia, patients can experience seizures and even death.
