Some parents believe that the lower the child's blood sugar, the better the child's health. Of course, this is not the case, and the harm of hypoglycemia to the child's body should not be underestimated. For pediatric diabetics, the harm of high blood sugar we have talked about a lot before, like various complications, will follow the impact of long-term high blood sugar. But for children with diabetes, we must also pay attention to prevent the harm of hypoglycemia.
Due to the diet control of children with diabetes, coupled with the influence of drugs, children with diabetes are actually more likely to have hypoglycemia than ordinary people. If the episodes of hypoglycemia are relatively frequent, it may cause a metabolic disorder of brain cells, which will seriously damage our brain cells. In this way, children with diabetes will gradually become memory loss, lethargy and even intellectual disability. If there is irreversible brain damage, a decline in brain function may occur. If coma caused by severe hypoglycemia is not corrected in time, there is a risk of life.
This is especially true for patients with various cardiac or cerebrovascular diseases. In summary, the main harms of hypoglycemia are these.
The first is that it is easy to cause coma. Severe hypoglycemia can sometimes cause people to fall into a coma quickly. If you do not receive timely rescue for a long time after the coma, it will increase the chance of death.
The second is to induce cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Hypoglycemia can cause the cardiac tube system to be greatly stimulated in children with diabetes, especially in children with diabetes, greatly increasing the incidence of cardiovascular accidents.
The third is damage to the central nervous system. Frequent episodes of hypoglycemia can seriously damage the central nervous system, which can lead to the development of abnormal mood and dementia in the child.
The fourth is that it is easy to cause a large fluctuation in blood sugar. In general, the occurrence of hypoglycemia will cause a sharp increase in kidney hormones in children with diabetes, and then cause the antimodulated hyperglycemia after hypoglycemia. In this way, our blood sugar fluctuates like a roller coaster, making their blood sugar uncontrollable.
The fifth is damage to the heart. Hypoglycemia is no less risky than hyperglycemia. If hypoglycemia recurs, it can even induce myocardial infarction. Hypoglycemia is also an important cause of death in people with heart disease.
In short, the harm of hypoglycemia to the child's body should not be underestimated, and the blood sugar of children with diabetes should tend to be stable, not too high or too low, which will cause harm to the patient's body.