Low blood sugar is very detrimental to overall health. People with low blood sugar should pay extra attention to their diet. So, what diseases can low blood sugar cause?
【What diseases can low blood sugar cause?】
1. Medication factors
Insulin: Excessive insulin injection or insufficient food intake after injection, coupled with excessive physical activity, can lead to typical acute hypoglycemic reactions.
Sulfonylurea drugs: The degree of hypoglycemia caused by these drugs depends on factors such as drug half-life and metabolism rate. When patients reduce their food intake, have liver or kidney diseases, or adrenal cortex insufficiency, hypoglycemia is likely to occur.
Oral hypoglycemic drugs, especially those that promote glucose reduction, are also prone to causing low blood sugar.
2. Disease factors
Severe liver disease impairs the liver's ability to regulate blood sugar. When sugar intake is insufficient, hypoglycemia is likely to occur.
Endocrine diseases such as adrenal, thyroid, and pituitary disorders can also cause hypoglycemia.
3. Lifestyle habits
Long-term inadequate food intake and excessive consumption, such as neurogenic anorexia, chronic malabsorption, chronic diarrhea, and renal glycosuria, can cause blood sugar to decrease.
Excessive alcohol consumption on an empty stomach stimulates the pancreatic islets to secrete a large amount of insulin, leading to hypoglycemia.
Sustained intense exercise, long-term hunger, or excessive fever can also cause hypoglycemia due to excessive glucose consumption.
【Skipping breakfast can lead to hypoglycemia】
When experiencing prolonged hunger or the inability to eat, the external source of blood sugar is cut off, and the internal liver glycogen reserves are limited, about 70-100 grams, which can be depleted within 10 hours. At this point, blood sugar concentration is primarily maintained through gluconeogenesis.
As the fasting time lengthens, when a "supply-demand mismatch" occurs, it can lead to hypoglycemia. People who regularly skip breakfast are more prone to hypoglycemia, which can affect their learning, work, and productivity.
