If a hypo means the sugar level drops too low?!
Question: and so not enough enough sugar in their blood stream for the insulin to feed the cells in the body - Why do we get a hypo when too much insulin is injected?
If too much insulin is injected, won't all the cells get enough insulin so no need for a hypo?
I'm confused, please help.
Answers: and so not enough enough sugar in their blood stream for the insulin to feed the cells in the body - Why do we get a hypo when too much insulin is injected?
If too much insulin is injected, won't all the cells get enough insulin so no need for a hypo?
I'm confused, please help.
Insulin is a chemical which helps the bosugar to be ingested in the right place at right quantiy. If sugar and insulin in the body is present in the proportionate level then (good proportionate) then it will properly feed cells with Sugar. If insulin is too short then sugar will keep accumulated in blood and it will not enter in the cells and they will be deprived of energy. Other hand if insulin is in greater quantity then sugar then it will inject all available sugar in the blood into cells and it will be called hypo.
the insulin also balances the amount of sugar present so too much will lower the sugar too low
Insulin helps your body use the Blood Sugar in your system. Too much Insulin will burn up the reserve or most of the blood sugar. You are confusing Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) and a Hypodermic needle ( the device used to inject the insulin or any other medicine) maybe.
Insulin facilitates the storage of glucose from the blood as well as facilitating it's presence for cellular respiration (energy acquisition). Normally what happens is the blood glucose level rises, the insulin responds and causes the absorption of glucose into cells. When there is excess glucose, insulin causes it to be stored as a large molecule called glycogen in the liver and muscles, ready for release when blood glucose levels drop (when you are asleep, for example).
When too much insulin is present, it causes too much glucose to be stored in the liver and muscle as glycogen and results in the blood glucose level to become too low - hypoglycemia. This is why it's important to keep the balance of insulin levels and blood glucose levels within narrow ranges.
Hypoglycemia (hypo) is the condition of your blood glucose (sugar) being too low. Insulin counteracts glucose and vice versa - they balance each other, so when you have too much glucose in the blood, you need more insulin. And conversely, if you have too much insulin in the blood you need more glucose to balance it. On the cell feeding issue, it's actually glucose, not insulin, that feeds the cells and lets them process it into energy. But INSULIN acts as a "key" to allow the cells to use that glucose. Without that "key", the sugar just builds up in the blood stream, and that is what causes Hyperglycemia (high blood glucose).
The pancreas secrets insulin, in diabetics the pancreas does not produce enough insulin. Insulin transports glucose(sugar) to all body cells for food. Without insulin transporting it, it causes hyperglycemia,(high blood sugar) because the extra glucose has no way of being transported to the cells via insulin. Sugar spills over into the bloodstream because it has no way of getting to cells=hyperglycemia. Too much insulin (injected or natural) carries glucose to the cells too rapidly and causes a drop in blood sugar=hypoglycemia(low blood sugar)
The simple answer is yes. Hypo is too low (which can be more dangerous) than hyper which is too high.
I'm a dumb one on this, but would that be called OD not you but the doctor should say something.my sugar is 102 started 40, they set me up to watch it. i am reading anything an everything.
Hypoglycemia is abnormally low blood sugar (too much Insulin)
Hyperglycemia is abnormally high blood sugar (not enough Insulin)