{"id":10010,"date":"2023-04-24T03:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T21:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2025-03-29T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T11:18:44","slug":"what-is-insulin-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-insulin-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Insulin Shock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Insulin Shock:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> Insulin shock occurs when you have <strong>too much insulin in your blood<\/strong>. This can <strong>lead to hypoglycemia, also called low blood sugar.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>If left untreated for too long, <strong>it can lead to loss of consciousness and even death<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>occur in people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes<\/strong> if they are using certain medications.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warning Signs<\/strong>: <strong>Dizziness<\/strong>, <strong>shaking<\/strong>, <strong>clamminess<\/strong>, a rapid pulse, and other symptoms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is Diabetes?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>chronic disease<\/strong> that occurs when the <strong>pancreas can no longer make insulin<\/strong> or the <strong>body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is Insulin<\/strong>? It is a <strong>hormone that regulates blood glucose.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Not being able to produce<\/strong> or use <strong>insulin<\/strong> effectively <strong>leads to raised glucose levels<\/strong> in the blood, <strong>known as hyperglycaemia<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Type 1 diabetes:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a condition in which <strong>your immune system destroys insulin-making cells in your pancreas.<\/strong> These are <strong>called<\/strong> <strong>beta cells.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When you have type 1 diabetes, <strong>your body produces very little or no insulin.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>requires daily administration of insulin<\/strong> to maintain blood glucose levels under control.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>usually diagnosed in children<\/strong> and young people, so it used to be called juvenile diabetes.<\/li>\n<li>Symptoms: <strong>Excessive excretion of urine<\/strong> (polyuria), <strong>thirst<\/strong> (polydipsia), constant hunger, <strong>weight loss<\/strong>, vision changes, and <strong>fatigue<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Type 2 diabetes:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It results from the <strong>body\u2019s ineffective use of insulin that it produces<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>More than <strong>95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This type of diabetes is <strong>largely the<\/strong> <strong>result of excess body weight and physical inactivity.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Symptoms may be similar to those of type 1 diabetes<\/strong> but are <strong>often less marked<\/strong>. As a result, the disease may be diagnosed several years after onset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is hyperglycaemia?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hyperglycaemia, or a hyper, can happen when your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diabetes.org.uk\/guide-to-diabetes\/managing-your-diabetes\/testing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">blood glucose (sugar) level<u>s<\/u><\/a> are too high \u2013 usually above 7mmol\/l before a meal and above 8.5mmol\/l two hours after a meal. This happens because the body either cannot produce enough insulin to process the sugar in the blood or it cannot use the insulin effectively enough.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/health\/too-much-insulin-can-be-as-dangerous-as-too-little-research20230423073614\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Too much insulin can be as dangerous as too little: Research<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insulin Shock occurs when you have too much insulin in your blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}