Low Blood Sugar
How does it feel when you have low blood sugar?
Low blood sugar (Low blood sugar is also called Hypoglycaemia)
When you take insulin, sometimes your blood sugar might become low. If that happens you can feel sweaty or shaky. You may feel anxious or dizzy and you might turn pale and loose concentration. When you loose your concentration, it becomes difficult to keep up in class or in a game.
If you feel any of these things, it is important that you eat or drink something with sugar in it. Your doctor might have given you some fast acting sugar that you can have on you all the time or you can just drink some orange juice. Ask your parents what you should eat or drink.
If your blood sugar becomes so low that you pass out, your parents should give you a hypofit gel or a Glucagen injection and may need to call an ambulance. It is very important that you always have the identification kit with you.
If you don’t feel well, always remember to tell your parents, teacher or any other grown-up who is taking care of you and your friends.
When your blood sugar becomes low, you might have forgotten to eat a meal or a snack or you might have been playing or doing sports more actively than usual or you might have taken too much insulin by mistake.
APP/KOL/AC 22/02/07