英文摘要 |
Functional reactive hypoglycemia that occurs spontaneously is completely different from drug-induced or tumor-related hypoglycemia as blood glucose is usually able to return to normal through physiological self-regulation without having to eat something or seek medical treatment. Unless for patients suffering brain or cardiovascular occlusion, reactive hypoglycemia is rarely life-threatening. Functional reactive hypoglycemia can pose difficulty in diagnosis as it is seldom encountered in clinical settings and therefore unlikely to be taken into consideration. It may occur in people of normal glucose tolerance as well as in patients of prediabetes or early-stage diabetes. For patients with severe gastric illness received partial, subtotal or total gastrectomy or in patients with morbid obesity with or without type 2 diabetes underwent gastric volume reduction or gastric bypass surgery, that postprandial reactive hypoglycemic is more likely to enter the picture of diagnosis. Symptoms like sweating, rapid heartbeat, and fatigue may prompt patients into mistaking reactive hypoglycemia as heart attack and experiencing major panics which can be avoided if physicians can pay closer attention to patients' descriptions and their health status to verify if reactive hypoglycemia is a potential diagnosis. Reactive hypoglycemic prevention and treatment can be as easy as having small frequent meals, reducing consumption of carbohydrates, avoiding sugary beverages and fruit juice. |