He said his hypoglycemia made things worse.
Low blood glucose is referred to as hypoglycemia.
Hypoglycemia occurs when blood sugar in the body drops so much it causes fatigue, weakness and even unconsciousness.
To help eliminate the chance of becoming dehydrated, women get liquid nutrients intravenously, with enough sugar to prevent hypoglycemia.
Many of the children suffer from bouts of hypoglycemia.
The inhibition of this process can lead to hypoglycemia, causing dehydration, seizures, coma, and death.
As they had hoped, repeated administration of the patch did not result in excess doses of insulin, and thus did not risk hypoglycemia.
We have to be a little cautious in saying that hypoglycemia causes death.
