After a person does not eat, their blood sugar is lower. How long until it stabilizes? When my blood sugar is low, I can't always concentrate so I would like to know how long I have to wait.
2007-01-03 03:55:08 · 4 answers · asked by sgregory1522 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I AM NOT DIABETIC.
I just woke up this morning and didn't eat for 3 or 4 hours.
2007-01-03 04:06:56 · update #1
It really depends on what you eat, how it is prepared and how you eat it. If you take straight table sugar (not recommended) under your tongue, your blood sugar will rise within minutes. I start seeing a reaction to a balanced meal at about 30 minutes.
Taking milk (mixed protein and carb, but liquid digests faster) will react faster than non-liquid food.
The books say that blood sugar peaks 1-2 hours after a meal.
To avoid the loss of concentration and other symptoms, eat a protein based snack at least every 4 hours.
www.hufa.org has some info for persons with low blood sugar.
2007-01-03 03:59:11 · answer #1 · answered by Pegasus90 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what you blood sugar is depends entirely on what and how much you eat, and also how active you are. There are no hard and fast times that you can point to and say that is when the sugar will be stable. If you have a low blood sugar that is affecting your mental status, it is dangerously low and needs to be dealt with immediately, at those times you need to ingest rapidly absorbed sugar to get the sugar up to safe levels and then eat some protien to keep it from falling dangerously low again. If you are diabetic and you don't know this stuff, you need to see a diabetic educator and learn what you need to know to control the disease.
2007-01-03 03:59:59 · answer #2 · answered by essentiallysolo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how much you eat and waht you eat, but as a rule of thumb your sugar should or is supposed to be pretty close to normal within 2-3 hours. If it is not at least back down to around 110 to 120 within 2 hours. If you eat a normal meal and wait 2 hours and check it, it should be back down in this period of time. If not, you might want to go to the doctor and get tested for diabeties.
2007-01-03 04:09:05 · answer #3 · answered by golden rider 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
y t such a big fuss abt the blood sugar and its being stabilised if u r not hyper-glycemic or even hypo-glycemic?
2007-01-03 04:09:18 · answer #4 · answered by ria j 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋