What to do when you have hypoglycemia in diabetes
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Today we’re covering everything you need to know about hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and share evidence-based ways for preventing and managing it. We will help you identify what hypoglycemia symptoms to look out for and offer practical tips for preventing and managing low blood sugar.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- What hypoglycemia is
- How to know if you are experiencing hypoglycemia and what symptoms to look out for
- How different illnesses and common diabetes medications can contribute to hypoglycemia
- The importance of recognizing warning signs, regular blood sugar monitoring, and consequences of untreated hypoglycemia
- Practical tips on meal timing, balanced nutrition, and on-the-go options for managing and preventing hypoglycemia + MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy. And I'm Jess, and we're best friends, |
| 0:05.3 | registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. Through our telehealth platform, DiabetesDiBesdigital.co, |
| 0:10.9 | we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and |
| 0:15.8 | pre-diabetes. Visit Diabetesdigital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment. |
| 0:21.6 | We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. |
| 0:24.8 | Now, let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:29.1 | Welcome back, everyone. |
| 0:30.9 | Thank you so much for tuning in to the Diabetes Digital podcast presented by Food Heaven. |
| 0:36.2 | We are going to be covering a very important topic that |
| 0:40.5 | isn't often talked about when it comes to diabetes, and that is hypoglycemia. And if you're |
| 0:46.3 | wondering, hypo what, hypo who? Hypoglycemia means low blood sugar. And we are going to talk about |
| 0:54.0 | our top ways for preventing low blood sugar |
| 0:56.7 | and also managing it because it is something that can happen quite frequently, especially |
| 1:01.2 | if you're taking blood sugar lowering medications. Also, this podcast is for informational purposes |
| 1:07.3 | only and should not be considered a substitute for medical advice. |
| 1:11.7 | Now, before we jump in, I just want to point out that many people think that eating for diabetes |
| 1:18.6 | means eating low carb. I can't tell you the number of times we get a new client, a patient, |
| 1:24.6 | and they say that they have diabetes. They've recently been diagnosed, |
| 1:28.2 | and they have cut out all carbohydrates or all sugar, and they believe, and sometimes they've |
| 1:35.3 | been also told by their doctor, that they need to do this for their health. But not eating |
| 1:39.7 | enough carbs can actually lead to hypoglycemia or low blood sugar, which we're going to talk about in this |
| 1:45.5 | episode. Yeah. And the thing with hypoglycemia is that oftentimes you might not have symptoms, |
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