SC - hypoglycaemia

[pat fee]

  Thank you Lars for stateing this so well.

    Ldy Katherine McGuire


>From: KallipygosRed at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - hypoglycaemia
>Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:43:39 EDT
>
>In a message dated 6/27/00 1:28:47 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>evfemia at mail.com writes:
>
><< Obviously reactions such as sweating, shaking,
>  slurred speech, confusion, etc can occur before the body is able to
>  stabilize itself.  But a primary hypoglycemic's body should be able to
>  stabilize it's own blood sugar without SERIOUS side effects from my
>  experience and research >>
>
>Yes, the above symptoms do indeed occur with enough lead time that if they
>are not ignored, the person can rectify the situation by eating, drinking,
>etc. HOWEVER do not believe that if these symptoms are ignored, they cannot
>lead to insulin shock and coma and death. They do. Frequently. More
>frequently then I would like to admit. Situation: Person is travelling
>through Arizona in car. All snackies are gone, as is water. Person figures
>they will stop at next town and eat; but next town is over 4 hours away 
>with
>no where to eat/stop between. Person had a hypoglycemic episode that 
>spiraled
>rapidly downward into a severe episode, that continued into insulin shock. 
>He
>was discovered by another motorist who called on cell phone and got life
>flight help to hospital. This person was not diabetic or had any other 
>health
>cocerns. It happened a year ago on the I-8 to from Tucson to Yuma. They 
>don't
>even have phone boxes out there until you are close to Yuma.
>
>So, it can happen. The problem is that people don't realize it can, and 
>they
>ignore or "live close to the wire" with their situation all the time; 
>eating
>when they can no longer help it or at the last possible moment before they
>become really ill. A lot of individuals just don't pay attention to the
>symptoms or deliberately ignore them, thinking there is time and/or they
>don't want to be slave to that kind of demand by body (like diabetics, some
>individuals rebel against the diagnoses by refusing to comply with the
>constraints of the illness to stay well; believing it is 'mind over matter'
>situation when not). Some people pay attention to the illness demands, but
>don't take adequate preparations and get caught in the secenario of the
>gentleman on his way to Yuma. In cases like that, it doesn't matter how 
>many
>symptoms you have, you can't do a durn thing about them until you get to
>place that allows you to do something about it.
>
>So, be careful. The only difference between Hypoglycemia and an Insulin
>Reaction (not Shock, shock refers to the comatose stage of the reaction) 
>and
>Insulin Shock (which can kill) is the severity of the symptoms. It is like
>trying to draw a line between Allergic Asthma and Chronic Airways Disease.
>Both have the same symptoms, with varying amount of severity; but either 
>way
>you won't care if you died because of ignoring the symptoms of Asthma or 
>CAD.
>Either way you're dead.
>
>Lars
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