If you feel tired or exhausted after meals, especially after eating sweets or pastries, if you experience symptoms such as sweating or discharge of hands and feet, you may have hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). Since hypoglycemia can turn into diabetes if left untreated, you should definitely consult a specialist if you have these symptoms.
Hypoglycemia means low blood sugar. However, blood sugar is not always at the same value; is variable. Food and beverages, physical activity, stress, alcohol, some drugs used
cause changes in blood sugar. Hypoglycemia is the sudden decrease in blood sugar and the patient’s perception of its symptoms, independent or dependent on these drugs and conditions. Hypoglycemia is more common in women. However, there is no clear information about its frequency in the society, there are many cases who experience their symptoms and do not go to the doctor, or who do not go to the doctor but cannot be diagnosed clearly.
Causes of hypoglycemia The most important cause of hypoglycemia is the type with excess insulin, and therefore insulin resistance. Usually, the patient feels unwell, drowsiness, and irritability develops 1-2 hours after foods that are high in carbohydrates (such as sweets, pastries, rice, pasta). There are even patients who sweat, tremble, discharge of hands and feet, and faint. There are cases that are confused with panic attack disease. Therefore, before the diagnosis of panic attack disease, the person’s symptoms are related to meals and if there is a family history of diabetes (diabetes), he should be tested for hypoglycemia.
People with hypoglycemia have decreased hunger tolerance. For the diagnosis of hypoglycemia, blood sugar must fall below 60 mg. However, some diabetics may also feel these symptoms at higher numbers (such as 70 – 80 mg).
Diagnosis in hypoglycemia: The most important feature of hypoglycemia is that it may be a predisposition to be a candidate for diabetes in the future, although not all of them. For this reason, patients who experience these symptoms and have a family history of diabetes should definitely consult their physician and have a loading test, or oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), known among the people. According to the result of this, they should definitely take diet and exercise, and if necessary, drug treatment
