From:
Sydney
Date: 2002-11-27 04:01:03 UTC
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] RE: Insulinoma, shaking, feeding
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <20021127040103.4565.qmail@web21404.mail.yahoo.com>
In my husband's diabetes education class, they said
newly diagnosed people undergoing treatment often show
symptoms of low glucose levels when their glucose
drops rapidly to the low end of the normal range. Now
these are people whose glucose probably hasn't been
normal for a while. But their body translates it into
low blood glucose. Similarly, some people who have
had diabetes for a while and whose glucose frequently
drops below the normal range, often can't recognize a
low glucose level because their bodies have become
used to it. So humans seem to react in a similar way.
Sydney
--- mjanke@miamiferret.org wrote:
<snip>
> I don't believe you can determine whether or not a
> seizure is likely based soley on glucose levels. A
> rapid drop to a not so low level seems more likely
> to cause a seizure than a gradual descent to the
> same level. I've seen glucose levels in the 30's
> and the ferret didn't exhibit ANY noticable
> symptoms, let alone a seizure. But a ferret that
> has a usual glucose level of say 60 or 70 and it
> suddenly drops to 30 would probably have a
> full-blown seizure.
>
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