Hypoglycemia

metabolic rate. Hypothyroidism is an autoimmune disorder, which is caused from a decrease in metabolic rate and causes edema. While caring for a patient with either of these two diseases, the nurse must assess vital signs, weight, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, metabolic rate and monitor serum thyroid hormone levels with coagulation lab values. Summary of Hyperthyroidism Hyperthyroidism results when…

The short term complications can be; hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia. If the blood sugar drops too low, hypoglycemia, it causes a person feel weak and faint and the blood glucose drops below 70. The person quickly needs to eat or drink something with sugar. Hyperglycemia is when blood glucose spikes, if it goes above 350, they…

controlled by two main hormones those are glucagon and insulin. Insulin: Insulin secreted by beta cells of pancreas. Those reducing the glucose level in blood, insulin hormone deposit glucose in liver, muscles and adipose tissue. Secretion makes hypoglycemia. Lack of insulin leads to diabetic mellitus. Treatment by insulin injection or tablets. Leads to may complications. Ex: eye- glucoma Peripheral neuropathy. Myocardial infection. Recurrent wound infection. Glucagon:…

Insulin was discovered in year 1921 by Banting and Best after a lot of controversy over it, for patients suffering from Diabetes Mellitus (DM) [1]. Islets were described by Paul Langerhans, a German medical scientist but couldn’t correlate any function for them. Crystalline Insulin was prepared by John Jacob Abel of Johns Hopkins University in 1926. Later in 1950, Frederick Sanger determined the molecular structure of Insulin for which he was awarded with a Nobel Prize. In today’s era, Genetic…

should eat, even for people with diabetes.” (11) Diabetics that eat too little or do not adjust their medications as they change their diet risk low glucose levels that lead to a precipitous fall in energy and to hypoglycemia – dizziness, headache and sweating. Left untreated, hypoglycemia can lead to coma. (15) There has not been scientific data conducted on the South Beach Diet, but dieters should be monitored for long term effects on kidney function. High protein diets make the kidneys work…

that they can change it into energy. When you have diabetes this process can either be non-existent or only produce a little amount of insulin. When your sugars or glucose is elevated it’s called hyperglycemia, when sugars are low it is called hypoglycemia. I am the manager of a medical office, so I have performed a blood sugar prick before. When a diabetic or nurse perform a diabetic or sugar level test, they prick the finger and squeeze a small amount of blood on a test strip. This test…

46). In order to avoid the manifestations of hypoglycemia, RJ’s diabetic educator needs to instruct her to check her blood sugar levels before, during, and after RJ completes her exercises in order to regulate the outcomes of exercise on her blood sugar levels. It is important for RJ to monitor her blood glucose levels after every one to two hours of exercise as intense workouts have the ability to cause hypoglycemia (Tate et al., 2007, p. 577). For this reason, RJ’s educator should…

Diabetes: The Lifestyle Impact of Having a Child with Type One Diabetes Type one diabetes (TD1) is a chronic metabolic illness that requires a lot of management, especially since TD1 is most common in childhood. With this metabolic disorder occurring mainly in childhood, parents, as well as the child, have to understand the disease and how to cope with it. This can be very stressful and worrisome for the parents. In a study done by the Journal of Clinical Nursing, one hundred-thirty four…

new glucose gel protocol and whether or not the neonates’ glucose levels are corrected prior to being discharged. Then, I analyzed the data that I collected. To increase the nursing staff’s compliance with the use of the glucose gel in correcting hypoglycemia, my preceptors and I developed an online learning module on the new glucose gel protocol. In addition, there’s a pre-test for the current and new nursing staff to complete before they start the online learning module. After the completion…

seeing if she asks appropriate questions, is able to accurately tell me the common signs of hyper- and hypoglycemia, and is able to verbalize correctly what she would do if one or the other happened. Hearing the patient’s questions will let me know how she is processing the information and if there are deficits to be addressed. Having her identify and verbalize signs and symptoms of hyper- and hypoglycemia and what to do in each situation will help her retain the information and also feel…