Diabetes Awareness Week

Diabetes Mellitus is an abnormal physiologic response to blood sugar and insulin. It is important to understand NORMAL physiology before we can understand how diabetes is abnormal.
Our blood sugar is controlled to a very narrow range. The normal range of blood glucose is 4.0-7.88mmol/L - these are important numbers to looks at. 
We start to have symptoms of true hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia can be mild, moderate, or severe.

• Mild Hypoglycemia: nausea, jittery/trembling, cold/clammy/wet skin, rapid heart beat (tachycardia)
  
• Moderate Hypoglycemia: irritability/anxiety,
• Severe Hypoglycemia:

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