The following actions can help you prevent hypoglycemia:
Check your blood glucose levels
Your blood glucose level can help you decide how much medicine to take, what food to eat, and how physically active to be. Check yourself with a blood glucose meter at least 3 times per days, especially before eating your meals. Sometimes people with diabetes don’t feel or recognize the symptoms of hypoglycemia, a problem called hypoglycemia unawareness. If you have had hypoglycemia without feeling any symptoms, you may need to check your blood glucose more often so you know when you need to treat your hypoglycemia or take steps to prevent it.
Eat regular meals and snacks
Eat regular meals and snacks with the correct amount of carbohydrates to help keep your blood glucose level from going too low.
Be physically active safely
To help prevent hypoglycemia, you may need to check your blood glucose before, during, and after physical activity and adjust your medicine or carbohydrate intake. For example, you might eat a snack before being physically active or decrease your insulin dose to keep your blood glucose from dropping too low.
How to treat your hypoglycemia?
If you begin to feel one or more hypoglycemia symptoms, check your blood glucose. If your blood glucose level, eat or drink 15 grams of carbohydrates right away. Examples include:
- A tube of glucose gel
- 1/2 cup of fruit juice
- 1/2 glass of soda, coca-cola
- 1 tablespoon of sugar, honey
- A tube of glucose gel
Wait for 15 minutes and check your blood glucose once again. If your glucose level is still low, eat or drink glucose or carbohydrates. But, be careful, don’t eat or drink too much. Check your blood glucose again after another 15 minutes. Repeat these steps until your glucose level is back to normal.
