PeteN11
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Why not? It happens to all of us every night. After carbohydrate from the last meal has been used up, blood glucose falls and blood glucose falls. The liver releases glucose to keep the body ticking over while we sleep and until breakfast. You ever heard a non-diabetic not waking up because of low blood glucose?
Some of the stuff you are saying is highly misleading and in part quite wrong.The important point is that if, for whatever reason, a hypo is not treated you will survive. The average liver can supply 130 grams of glucose, enough to deal with a severe hypo. In the absence of a complicating co-morbidity, this always happens.
What you state above happens to people who are non diabetic.
For most of us with T1 outside of the honeymoon period the Liver very rarely kicks in to keep glucose levels up during a Hypo. This is because the alpha cells in pancreas get confused when they detect Insulin in the body. If insulin is detected the body thinks BG must need reducing therefore no need for Glucagon to ask the liver to to raise that BG any more. T1's have too much injected insulin in their bodies for Glucogon to act the same as a non diabetic.
Hypo's at any time of day are serious. Those happening during sleep can be fatal and should be referred to their consultants. To say otherwise is incorrect.