The prevention of hypoglycemia is mainly based on the prevention of regular meals, overdose of hypoglycemic drugs, avoidance of strenuous exercise, and active treatment of primary diseases.
1. Regular and quantitative meals: meals should be regular and quantitative, avoid overeating and excessive dieting, and in the case of controlling the total calories, at the same time to ensure that each meal intake of carbohydrates, to prevent drastic fluctuations in blood glucose.
2. Do not overdose on hypoglycemic drugs: diabetic patients should not overdose on hypoglycemic drugs, especially sulfonylurea hypoglycemic drugs and insulin, and use them under the guidance of a doctor for timely treatment of the disease.
3. Avoid strenuous exercise: Strenuous exercise should be avoided so as not to cause violent blood sugar fluctuations. When the body’s energy consumption increases sharply, it is necessary to add meals in a timely manner, and at the same time, attention should be paid to appropriately reduce the dosage of hypoglycemic drugs. Especially fasting should try to avoid exercise.
4. Actively treat the primary disease: some hypoglycemia is caused by pancreatic tumors, such as diagnosed insulinoma or extra-pancreatic tumors, feasible tumor resection.
The condition of hypoglycemia is critical, if the treatment is not timely, it may lead to hypoglycemic coma or even life-threatening, so we must pay great attention to it and go to the hospital for consultation in time.