Hypoglycemia Causes
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Causes of Hypoglycemia
Medication for diabetes is the most common cause particularly when combined with the following factors:
- Taking too much blood sugar-lowering medication
- Delaying or missing meals, or eating too little at meals
- Too much or too strenuous exercise
Reactive hypoglycemia may also occur in people without diabetes. It is now thought to be quite rare.
Other causes of hypoglycemia include:
- Drinking too much alcohol (especially binge drinking coupled with not eating)
- Prolonged fasting
- Early pregnancy
- Long periods of strenuous exercise
- Certain medications may increase the risk of hypoglycemia (people on beta blockers who exercise, aspirin in children)
- Certain pituitary or adrenal gland conditions
- Certain liver conditions
- Certain types of stomach surgery
- Certain autoimmune conditions
- Hereditary enzyme or hormone deficiencies
- A reaction to certain foods (rarely, eating unripe ackee fruit from Jamaica)
- Pancreatic tumors
- Tumors that produce an insulin-like hormone
- Any severe or protracted illness, such as:
- Heart or Kidney Failure
- Metastatic cancer
- Malnutrition
- Severe infection
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