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What Kind Of Diet Is Advisable For A Patient With Low Blood Sugar?
Question: what should I take for low blood sugar?
Brief Answer:
Honey or sugar drink.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
The best type of food/drink to help with a low blood sugar is either honey or a sugar drink (for example orangeade with added sugar). Low blood sugar - if not caused by drugs for diabetes - can be caused by:
- other drugs (this is not common though)
- excessive alcohol use
- liver dysfunction
- Addison's disease
- after surgery to the upper gastrointestinal tract (dumping syndrome)
- pancreatic tumors that produce insulin (insulinomas)
- paradoxically diabetes mellitus type 2 before its full-blown clinical manifestations. In some people it starts with hypoglycemic events that usually occur 2-3 or more hours after a meal due to delayed excretion of insulin.
Before attributing anything to hypoglycemia, the low blood sugar has to be documented.
Kind regards!
Take care.
Dr. Panagiotis Zografakis, Internal Medicine Specialist
Honey or sugar drink.
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.
The best type of food/drink to help with a low blood sugar is either honey or a sugar drink (for example orangeade with added sugar). Low blood sugar - if not caused by drugs for diabetes - can be caused by:
- other drugs (this is not common though)
- excessive alcohol use
- liver dysfunction
- Addison's disease
- after surgery to the upper gastrointestinal tract (dumping syndrome)
- pancreatic tumors that produce insulin (insulinomas)
- paradoxically diabetes mellitus type 2 before its full-blown clinical manifestations. In some people it starts with hypoglycemic events that usually occur 2-3 or more hours after a meal due to delayed excretion of insulin.
Before attributing anything to hypoglycemia, the low blood sugar has to be documented.
Kind regards!
Take care.
Dr. Panagiotis Zografakis, Internal Medicine Specialist
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