How to handle friends or family with the case of low blood sugar

If the patient is conscious and aware of what people around him are given a glass of fruit juice (such as orange sugared) or three tablespoons of honey, or a glass of water sugared, and should not be given to the patient chocolate or ice cream because of the amount of fat the lead to slow movement stomach.
If the patient is not conscious ask the ambulance immediately and do not try to open the patient's mouth by force and given sugary solutions dumping in his mouth, it could lead to sip the liquid into the lungs and pneumonia Aspiration pneumonia At the hospital, the patient is given 25-50 ml of glucose 50% infusion center. The patient can be given hormone glucagon 1 mg muscle or deep under the skin in
If there is no phenomenon in the patient's veins to give glucose solution through it. It must be reviewed by the patient's physician to determine the cause of low blood sugar, and try to avoid it in the future.
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