{"id":16966,"date":"2021-11-15T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=16966"},"modified":"2021-11-15T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T13:00:39","slug":"low-blood-sugar-can-be-as-dangerous-as-high-blood-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/diabetes\/low-blood-sugar-can-be-as-dangerous-as-high-blood-sugar\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Blood Sugar Can Be As Dangerous as High Blood Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A lot of health information is out there about diabetes, which typically is categorized as high blood sugar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise, a lot of information exists about how to control blood sugar including medications and insulin injections.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, there isn&#8217;t as much public information about low blood sugar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Similar to high blood sugar in its adverse effects, low blood sugar can affect both people with or without diabetes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chronic condition is called hypoglycemia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The only true way to identify low blood sugar is with a blood glucose test.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Symptoms of Low Blood Sugar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 10 symptoms can tell you if you have low blood sugar but here are the most common ones:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your heart will start beating fast.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapid heartbeats are associated with both high and low blood sugar levels. There is an association between<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">diabetes and heart disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will have clammy skin. This is a sudden onset of clamminess. Your head may still sweat but will also be clammy.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will be jittery. This symptom is similar to having too much caffeine. Your hands may shake or you may be easily spooked.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your thinking will be muddled.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muddled thinking is a more subtle sign of low blood sugar but is one of the first signs to show it, beyond all the other physical signs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The person can&#8217;t seem to get words out or answer questions in the most extreme circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Low blood sugar can appear similar to a stroke in the worst cases where the person can&#8217;t move, talk or respond. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They can even faint from it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Reasons Why People Have Low Blood Sugar<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most obvious reason is a lack of consistent or nutritional eating. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missing a meal can cause your blood sugar to drop, especially if it&#8217;s not something you typically do. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other common culprit is medications, particularly diabetes medications.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monitoring what you eat, along with exercise and keeping up with your medications, will keep you from having blood sugar lows and all the terrible consequences that come with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of health information is out there about diabetes, which typically is categorized as high blood sugar. Likewise, a lot of information exists about how to control blood sugar including medications and insulin injections.\u00a0 However, there isn&#8217;t as much public information about low blood sugar. Similar to high blood sugar in its adverse effects, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"tags":[1413,1414,1415],"class_list":["post-16966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-hi-blood-sugar","tag-lo-blood-sugar","tag-sugar-levels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}