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what happens if the sugar level goes zero (0) ?

what happens if the sugar level goes as low as 10 or zero ?

Today morning just half an hour before my wife woke up and found that her sugar level went as low as 35 .o
she is 28 years old 50 kg weight .
I would like to know what happens if it goes really so low , i have made her drink sugar water as of now .

regards,
Dipen
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You’d be brain dead in about 10 seconds as your neurons deplete the last of their very-small stores of ATP. It would be extremely difficult to revive you. However, before your blood sugar levels reached zero, most of your physiological functions would have already shut down—enough that blood sugar levels don’t actually reach zero because cells cease to function before that point. Deadly low blood sugar levels are really low, usually (your electrolyte status makes a big difference in how your body responds to low sugar levels) below 20 mg/dl (1 mmol/L), but there are deadly low blood sugar levels that are above zero.
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However, to breath is a process that requires other essential ingredients which are less known. Sugar is one of those other essential ingredients.

In other words, if your blood sugar level reaches 0, you (especially your brain) cannot breath.

So, what would happen to you if you cannot breath?

Now, what Lexii told you is 100% true, you would be having a seizure long before that.

When your sugar level is low, it is as if you are not getting enough oxygen.
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You die. Am a ER nurse your brain needs glucose to function without it, it started to die. I think this patient may have overdosed on insulin. Her brain swelled to the point it herniated down her spinal cord and was essentially a organ doner at this point. Nothing we could do.
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you have to keep your blood sugar levels at a good rate and also a stroke can happen when too high or also call diabete stroke or a diabete heart attack can happen
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now the 100s all fine but 240s are not and 51 and is low you eat some candy or cake or some food sugar attack can apear when too low and another think if your blood sugar never goes back up as it should be 911 quick or if your loved one or anybody is an acoma the doctor should give them a shot to bring back up and you should have a kit just in case
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and if your sugar gets too high you can and to an acoma and left untreat death can happen don't let you or anybody is blood sugar over 600 or even 200 500 your blood sugar should only be around 99 to 100 or even 120 102 110 or even 130  240 is higher then it should even stroke or heart or kidney failture  keep your blood sugar at it least in the 100s
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