What Is The Difference Between Diabetic Shock And Diabetic Coma?

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What Is The Difference Between Diabetic Shock And Diabetic Coma and the similarities
These aren't exactly medical terms that are heavily differentiated. However, diabetic coma would suggest that the patient is an insulin-dependent diabetic (IDDM), and has gone into a coma from the absence of insulin. Basically the brain would shut down from not having sugar.
A patient in diabetic shock would be non-insulin-dependent (NIDDM), and would go into shock when there is not enough insulin. The body won't go into coma because there will still be small amounts of insulin in the body. The body will go into shock, because the insulin is not adequate and will cause osmotic changes in the blood.  (+ info)

Can you have brain injury from a diabetic coma?

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My husband who is 52 and until now an undiagnosed diabetic has been in a diabteic coma for a week today. He is on life support which is helping him breath and a kidney machine. They removed his leg 2 days ago and expected him to come around but he isnt. He is unresonsive to comands of any kind the doctors arent telling me if they suspect he has brain damage (his blood was 99 on the cnd scale normal is 4-7) he goes for an MRI tomorrow is there something they are not telling me?
This is not the type of question that I enjoy answering. It is likely that your husband has suffered some degree of brain 'injury'. A brain injury is a vague term. At some point the physician may want to do a study to measure brain wave activity. This test is helpful but not definitive. The MRI is not likely to answer your question as it defines the structure not the function of the brain. Having said that some degree of brain insult has almost certainly occurred, I would not despair. It was not that long ago that physicians believed that brain injuries were permanent. In recent years that has been disproven. Once he awakens from the coma intensive occupational and physical therapy may allow for near complete recovery although the recovery may be very slow. Recovery may takes years. At this point in time it appears that there is no point at which further recovery is no longer possible. I hope that this is of some help to you at a very difficult time. If I may be of further assistance please let me know - [email protected]. I wish you and your husband the very best of health and may God bless. I do believe in prayer and my prayers will be with you.  (+ info)

How long does it take to recover from a diabetic coma?

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My mom is 91 and has had diabetes for over twenty-five years. Three weeks ago I found her unconscious . She went to hospital and was stabilized, but now she is very tired and wobbly when she tries to walk.
If she's conscious and can walk, she's not in a coma.  (+ info)

Is there anything someone can do to prevent someone from going into a diabetic coma?

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i was dating this guy and he was a diabetic and he was always in the hospital and he passed away in march of 2010 and they said that he died of a diabetic coma. Could anybody of done anything to prevent it or help him?
I am sorry to hear about your friend. As everyone else has said , it is all up to the person with diabetes. If their blood sugar is too high and they go into a coma, it is because they were not caring for themselves as they should.  (+ info)

If someone is moving his arms is he still in a diabetic coma?

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Is it a good sign that he is moving his arms? He is still unconscious and has been in a coma for 36 hours
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how much diabetic pill can a person take that would put them in a coma but not kill them?

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What is the name of the diabetic pill and in what quantity can a person take that will put them in a coma but not kill them?
You asked a question to which no one can accurately answer. There are just to many variables to answer it with any degree of accuracy, you needed to describe the:

Type of diabetes
and the name and dosage of the medication,
and what the person ingested prior to taking the pills.  (+ info)

a person is in a diabetic coma and blood pH shows severe acidosis, to treat would the doc remove or add H+?

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If a a person is in a diabetic coma and blood pH shows severe acidosis, to treat would the doc remove or add H+
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How low of blood sugar can a Type II diabetic have before going into a coma?

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My husband has type II diabetes, he is on Metformin and Glyburide. He is now getting far more excersise and eating healthier, but has not adjusted medication. The other morning he woke up because he wasn't feeling well. He tested his blood sugar and it was 36. He drank a soda and had some crackers and peanuts before he felt safe to go back to sleep. He would like to know how dangerous that 36 reading was. We have a friend who we think had a reading of somewhere in the thirties, and when she woke up, she couldn't move or speak. She is fine now, but that was pretty frightening.
Your husband needs to see his doctor to adjust his medication dosage if he is having regular lows. If he has lost weight and changed his lifestyle, he needs to change his medication doses accordingly.

36 mg/dl (2.0 mmol/l) is dangerously low. Symptoms can vary depending on factors such as how FAST his blood glucose dropped. Regardless, this is a dangerous level independent of whether or not it results in a coma. A coma can occur at this level in some people.

Your husband should not drive unless his BG is above 60 mg/dl, and he should have a snack. He needs to test his BG regularly, and should carry glucose gel on him. He needs to see his doctor right away. Hypoglycemia can be very dangerous.

Type 2's generally don't usually go into actual hypoglycemic comas without insulin, as their counter mechanisms to prevent this are intact. However, anything is possible, especially if his medication dose is way too high. It is still unsafe though, and I suggest he call his doctor today and explain the problem.  (+ info)

Did anyone ever know of someone in a diabetic coma for a month?

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And then had to have a tracheostomy. What was their outcome/prognosis. The person I know is now in a care facility and can walk, talk, eat but needs assistance with medicine, food prep, personal hygiene, etc.
A diabetic coma for one month is extremely uncommon. Whether the coma was induced by hypo- or hyper- glycemia the glucose level is corrected quickly. Hypoglycemic coma responds almost immediately to an infusion of glucose. Hyperglycemic coma responds within days to an insulin drip. For the coma to have lasted one month I suspect that there must be other factors at work. For example perhaps an illness or a major health event triggered the diabetic coma. In such a case the length of the coma and the prognosis would be based more upon the 'trigger' than the diabetes itself. If this individual is presently able to walk, talk, and eat with continued occupational therapy a good outcome is likely. I wish you and your friend the very best of health and in all things may God bless.  (+ info)

how to differentiate the three types of diabetic coma in a patient?

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lets say the patient is unconscious and sent to emergency department, how do u diagnose and treat him??
By the three types do you mean the hypoglycemic low blood sugar, the high blood sugar hyperosmolar non-ketotic, and the ketotic acidosis?

The low sugar in one is where the person awakes from the coma with the administration of glucose into an IV. A blood sugar is obtained in all cases and if high then a beta-hydroxybutarate level (ketone) is performed. If the level is high then one has hyperglycemic ketoacidosis first suspected on the chemistry panel with a low C02 indicating acidosis with an anion gap and the presence of ketones. In the field some of these patients can have a fruity odor. The other type normally seen in type 2 diabetes is strictly a high glucose level leading to abnormal brain function (hyperglycorrhachia) in addition to symptoms of hyperosmolarity (high sugar). These sugars can get really high.  (+ info)

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