ENDOCRINE SYSTEM Hypoglycemia Flashcards
1
Q
S/S hypoglycemia
A
- shaky
- nervous
- jittery
- increased pulse
- headache
- nausea
- confusion
2
Q
When the patient starts to experience hypoglycemia, they should do what?
A
eat simple sugars, like candy
3
Q
After the BS is up, what should they do? why?
A
eat more; more complex carb and a protein.
to sustain the blood sugar because if they don’t, since the candy is fast acting, they’re gonna bottom out again.
4
Q
You enter a diabetic patient’s room and they are unconscious… do you treat this patient like he is hypo or hyperglycemic?
What do you give them?
what do you do after they wake up?
A
HYPO because we are most worried about “brain”
D50W or injectable glucagon
give them something to eat
5
Q
Glucagon is used to ___ blood sugar
A
increase (glucagon= glucose is gone in the body. let’s give them some)
