Mother nature seems to have designed our livers to dump loads of unchecked sugar in our system. We are supplied with an organ called the pancreas that produces a hormone called insulin that puts the brakes on our liver. Our brain and pancreas knows when there is too much sugar in our system and starts secreting insulin. Another takes over call glucagon encouraging the rise in sugar level. Our brain and panaceas also knows when there is not enough stopping glucagon secretion and increasing insulin when needed.
If the pancreases or brain doesn't adjust theses hormones when appropriately required there are sugar level problems called diabetes. It is a frailer to recognize low or high sugar levels changes resulting two types of diabetes.
Type one when the pancreas doesn't recognize there is too much sugar in our system secreting not enough insulin and possibly a Glucagon decrees failure too. The liver is free to run riot discharging sugar in the blood stream unchecked. The level of the two hormone productions could have frozen at a time when there was a high blood sugar level present that has never sensed a drop in levels any more , stuck on a permanent low level of insulin and possibly excessive glucagon when sugar level dramatically increases.
The end result is an excess sugar overwhelming our body cells. There is more sugar than they can take in. In time it takes it's toll damaging the ability to absorb until they fail to respond any more. Individuals with this condition are committed to a lifetime of manually injecting insulin for life to compensate what the pancreases should automatically do.
Type two, when the two hormones has possibly frozen at a level when there was once a low sugar level stuck on a permanent high level of insulin in the blood stream. The result is an inappropriate amount preventing the liver from secreting sugar into the blood stream. In other words to much insulin and possibly not enough glucagon as well. If the cells don't respond to the glucagon any more is often expressed as insulin resistant. This is why type two diabetics can't have insulin injections.
To much insulin ( and possibly not enough glucagon too ) we have a situation where our body cells have reached a point where they aren't responding to sugar absorption any more. We start to experience a low blood sugar drowsiness. We experience an onset of an overwhelming yawing binge followed by the next few minutes increasingly fighting to stay awake. If the drowsiness is not recognized for what it is we often dismiss as just tired. Most of us don't recognize tiredness does not catch up with us like that. It is important to understand our brain needs a constant supply of glucose from the sugar in the blood supply. Low blood sugar is effecting it this way.
This sudden onset is virtually a glucose starvation fit. It is the result of a sudden drop of glucose due to the possible over abundance of insulin and under supply of glucagon denying our brain glucose called hypoglycaemia ( pronounced as high pog gliss seem e a ) keeping our glucose level stubbornly low.
Described, is a low level hypoglycaemia shock. The word is often mixed up with the same word for high blood sugar by just a minor spelling difference and pronounced differently high "per" gliss seem e a. ( Hyperglycaemia ). The key difference is between low and high blood sugar levels "Hypo" meaning low and "Hyper" meaning "high". The drowsiness description is a relatively low level hypo attack. A hypoglycaemia attack is often a warning we are entering a phase of type one diabetes due to the fact the pancreas has stopped insulin secretion or at lest jammed on a too low level that's not enough to balance the high sugar level that has been damaging our cells they aren't absorbing the sugar properly.
Our pancreas can have stopped or jammed on a low level secretion for some time without being aware of it.. We didn't recognize the symptoms when they are to minor to pay attention to dismissing as just every day occurrences. They include the following that can last a few seconds to a few minute bouts all day long at a very, very minimal levels for a week or two. We can experience a minimal sensation of not being very bright today. This includes minimal shaking barely warranting our attention, barely aware we are sweating enough not to pay attention to. Be aware of hot summer days can do this. We also barely notice pounding heartbeats, a minor case of struggling with minimal bouts of blurry vision all day, or a barely noticeable headache, light headiness, or poor coordination bouts for a second or two all day long we tend to dismiss as nothing more than momentarily lapses as just one of those days today. It only needs any one of the symptoms that can also be a signal of an accompanying dehydration this condition causes.
The symptoms don't come all at a cluster. It only takes at lest one. Only when a symptom becomes obviously more noticeable than normal we start paying attention focusing on that one. The others get ignored because they are a feeling of being so minor they are dismissed as nothing
A hypo attack comes on from the minor symptoms below our attention threshold for some time. If sure of type 2 diabetes feeling the start of a hypo attack and emergency food can help you recover eating a fast acting sugary item such sweets or sugary drink. But we can never be sure if it is a type one warning that can do more ham than good.
If you have raw sugar on hand that is better than the processes white sugar in a cup of tea or a sugary fizzy drink, but if that's all you have that will do. Slow acting carbohydrate foods such as bread and bananas can be potentially to slow for any fast help.
If you recover alertness from a feeling of extreme drowsiness quickly odds are you have a type two diabetes condition.
Just because you have an abundance of insulin in your system doesn't mean your free to indulge in lots of sugar. Bear in mind any instant carbohydrate are fast at acceleration your energy ideal in the emergency but are equally fast at decelerating it. The technique of recovery once recovered should be toped up a light meal of slow accelerating carbohydrate foods to help stave off just in case of a potential relapses.
This is why type two diabetes is very tricky. There is a tricky and careful diet résumé to follow.
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