Can you drink alcohol if you have low blood sugar?

Low blood sugar patients are not recommended to drink alcohol. Because alcohol contains a relatively large amount of ethanol, after drinking alcohol may inhibit glucose absorption in the body, but also may reduce the metabolism of liver glycogen, after drinking alcohol in the body of glucose can not be converted to sugar in a timely manner, it will be easy to appear hypoglycemia. Therefore, hypoglycemic drinking may cause blood sugar to fall further. In addition, drinking alcohol on an empty stomach will cause the patient’s liver glycogen to appear depleted, and after the liver glycogen is completely depleted, it may cause the hypoglycemic condition of fasting to flare up. Therefore, for the sake of their own health, people with hypoglycemia should try not to drink alcohol. If the patient suffers from hypoglycemia, it is recommended to carry some sugar-containing cookies and other foods, which can be eaten in time to relieve hypoglycemia symptoms after hypoglycemia occurs. At the same time, it is recommended that patients with hypoglycemia go to the hospital in time to see a doctor, under the guidance of the doctor to clarify the cause of hypoglycemia, and give standardized treatment.