Editing Insulin (section)

== Hypoglycemia ==
{{Main|Hypoglycemia}}
[[Hypoglycemia]], also known as "low blood sugar", is when [[blood sugar]] decreases to below normal levels.<ref name=NIH2008/> This may result in a variety of [[symptoms]] including clumsiness, trouble talking, confusion, [[loss of consciousness]], [[seizures]] or death.<ref name=NIH2008/> A feeling of hunger, sweating, shakiness and weakness may also be present.<ref name=NIH2008/> Symptoms typically come on quickly.<ref name=NIH2008>{{cite web|title=Hypoglycemia|url=http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/Diabetes/hypoglycemia/Pages/index.aspx|website=National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases|access-date=28 June 2015|date=October 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701034430/http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-topics/Diabetes/hypoglycemia/Pages/index.aspx|archive-date=1 July 2015}}</ref>

The most common cause of hypoglycemia is [[Anti-diabetic medication|medications]] used to treat [[diabetes]] such as insulin and [[sulfonylurea]]s.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Yanai H, Adachi H, Katsuyama H, Moriyama S, Hamasaki H, Sako A | title = Causative anti-diabetic drugs and the underlying clinical factors for hypoglycemia in patients with diabetes | journal = World Journal of Diabetes | volume = 6 | issue = 1 | pages = 30–6 | date = February 2015 | pmid = 25685276 | pmc = 4317315 | doi = 10.4239/wjd.v6.i1.30 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name=Sch2007>{{cite book| vauthors = Schrier RW |title=The internal medicine casebook real patients, real answers|date=2007|publisher=Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0-7817-6529-9|page=119|edition= 3rd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zbuKcQwh2b0C&pg=PA119|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701020033/https://books.google.ca/books?id=zbuKcQwh2b0C&pg=PA119|archive-date=1 July 2015}}</ref> Risk is greater in diabetics who have eaten less than usual, exercised more than usual or have consumed [[ethanol|alcohol]].<ref name=NIH2008/> Other causes of hypoglycemia include [[kidney failure]], certain [[tumors]], such as [[insulinoma]], [[liver disease]], [[hypothyroidism]], [[starvation]], [[inborn error of metabolism]], [[sepsis|severe infections]], [[reactive hypoglycemia]] and a number of drugs including alcohol.<ref name=NIH2008/><ref name=Sch2007/> Low blood sugar may occur in otherwise healthy babies who have not eaten for a few hours.<ref name=Perk2008>{{cite book| vauthors = Perkin RM |title=Pediatric hospital medicine : textbook of inpatient management|date=2008|publisher=Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins|location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0-7817-7032-3|page=105|edition= 2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sV6-ifUGoMYC&pg=PA105|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701020159/https://books.google.ca/books?id=sV6-ifUGoMYC&pg=PA105|archive-date=1 July 2015}}</ref>