ER visits for low blood sugar common among insulin users

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ER visits for low blood sugar common among insulin users

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Almost 100,000 people in the U.S. are sent to emergency rooms every year for low blood sugar or errors related to a common diabetes drug, according to a new government study. "This is important because many of these emergency department visits for insulin-related hypoglycemia are preventable," Dr. Andrew Geller, the study's lead author, said. Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, can occur when people with diabetes inject themselves with the hormone insulin, which allows the body to turn sugar in the blood into energy. People with diabetes don't produce enough insulin on their own or their bodies have become resistant to it.

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