Health Center - Diabetes
About eight percent of all Americans have diabetes, and the rate is increasing. Learn more about this prevalent and life-threatening disease, including common symptoms, how it affects your health, tips to manage it and prevent complications and ways to reduce your risk factors.
Diabetes Guide
Hypoglycemia—Avoiding the Lows of Insulin Therapy
Symptoms of hypoglycemia include hunger, shakiness, nervousness, sweating, dizziness or lightheadedness. Severe hypoglycemia can lead to confusion, clumsiness, fainting and even seizures, coma and death if untreated. Hypoglycemia can also occur overnight, and you may feel tired, irritable or confused when you wake up. The good news is that hypoglycemia is far less common in people with type 2 diabetes than in those with type 1.
Preventing Hypoglycemia
To avoid hypoglycemia, it's important that you eat regular meals and snacks and keep a close watch on your blood sugar levels when you're sick or stressed, and before, during and after exercising. You should also:
