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Thread: Hypo's
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Old 07-31-2006, 04:49 AM
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Yes you can pass out and most of the time you won't even sense it coming on. If you sense it, your body has time to react and dump glucose into the blood stream. It's when it comes on so fast that your body can't dump that glucose and you can't react properly. That's why all diabetics should have glucagon shots (basically a form of pure glucose in a needle) that other people know where you keep it (now being at work and having it at home won't help) in case they need to help you.

That is why before ever driving one should check their BG. If they check and test at 60, a hypo may be coming on very fast and you could black out and cause an accident (ask my brother, he has had three accidents from sudden hypos, luckily both very minor, and all about 4 years or more ago.)
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