can low blood sugar be dangerous to ur brain in ne way?

Question

ma frnd recently passed out n his blood sugar was 38....can it be any dangerous to his brain?

Answer 1

yeah you can pass out ! if you are diabetic then please take car of yourself! this can be dangerous!you can be going into a shock!

Answer 2

Yes, ever so slightly.

Whereas many parts of the body can metabolise fats and ketones for energy - nerve cells in the brain can't. They need glucose. Without glucose, they shut down - hense diabetic coma - and rapidly enough, they die.

However, a blood glucose of 38mmol/L is pretty dangerously high (although the effects vary from person to person). It causes blackouts and coma for different reasons.

Answer 3

Yes, low blood sugar level (BSL) is just as dangerous as a high BSL.

Now, because I don't know which country you're in I don't know if you're measuring in mmol/l or mg/dl.

38 mmol/l is very high, whereas 38 mg/dl is quite low. I'm going to assume you're using mg/dl because that would make the most sense to your question.

Although it is quite low, I would think your friend would still have been conscious enough to alert you and eat some food.

One "hypo" treated correctly is not going to affect your friend's long term health. Neither will 10 or 100. As long as those around him know what to do and he has good hypo awareness (can feel his BSL dropping).

Answer 4

Your body and brain run on food. No fuel in the tank no way to make the brain run. You slip into a comma. Basically you are missing brain food and the brain shuts it's body and it's self off.
Grab a Snickers, it satisfies you...

Answer 5

yes my DR told me after repeated lows it could fry your brain cells and cause brain damage tell your friend to watch his bs closley and Good Luck to him.

Answer 6

He can go into a coma and die, which would be very bad for his entire body. Really, you can die from hypoglycemia- it's got to be taken seriously.