The following actions can help you prevent hypoglycemia:
Check your blood glucose levels
How much medicine you take, what food you eat, and how physically active you are can affect your blood glucose level. Make sure you check your blood glucose at least three times a day, especially before eating. Hypoglycemia unawareness occurs when diabetics don’t feel or recognize hypoglycemia’s symptoms. The first step to treating hypoglycemia or preventing it is to check your blood sugar more often if you have had hypoglycemia without feeling any symptoms.
Eat regular meals and snacks
To prevent your blood glucose level from going too low, eat regular meals and snacks containing the correct amount of carbohydrates.
Be physically active and safely
Before, during, and after physical activity, you should check your blood glucose level and adjust your medications or carbohydrate intake to prevent hypoglycemia. 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.
