Diving and Hypoglycemia
#1
Posted 25 May 2004 - 02:38 PM
~Jacques Cousteau
#2
Posted 25 May 2004 - 03:06 PM
not being a doctor, but...Is diving with Hypoglycemia a safety issue? If so, would it be about the same protocol as diving with Diabetes?
I would thing that Hypoglycemia would carry the same or at least very similar cautions as Diabetes. The possibility of unconciousness, or at least impaired judgement, would make it an added risk.
Not saying that it should preclude diving, just that extra caution should be exercised
"the WW Approved 'Unofficial' guardian angel"
#3
Posted 26 May 2004 - 10:20 PM
In short....yes. Low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) is usually the result of the body not being able to precisely regulate insulin release and blood sugar (glucose) level. When this gets to a certain degree, with high and low swings in blood sugar, it is called diabetes mellitus. People take pills or insulin shots to help regulate the sugar level.Is diving with Hypoglycemia a safety issue? If so, would it be about the same protocol as diving with Diabetes?
Hypoglycemia is a bit of a catch phrase. To some it means diabetes that does not require pills or shots. All of us can get hypoglycemic if we don't eat well, exercise a lot (increasing the body's need for glucose), or exert ourselves (like in diving). The problem is that low blood sugar can result in slowed thinking/ reactions, weakness, dizzy/ faint feelings, nausea, and other symptoms.
The best treatment is to eat regularly, stay hydrated, and dive with your favorite diving doc!
#4
Posted 26 May 2004 - 10:38 PM
Would Triggerfish count?
#5
Posted 26 May 2004 - 10:51 PM
Brian, only to guarantee that you would develop symptoms of hypoglycemia!Would Triggerfish count?
#6
Posted 26 May 2004 - 11:58 PM
Hmmmm.........Brian, only to guarantee that you would develop symptoms of hypoglycemia!
Would Triggerfish count?
I don't see how that would guarantee that, but anything is possible.
#7
Posted 11 June 2004 - 09:24 PM
Or maybe, from just exerting a lot of energy to keep up with her.
#8
Posted 11 June 2004 - 10:00 PM
#9
Posted 13 June 2004 - 04:36 PM
SH, he was only kidding!
#10
Posted 13 June 2004 - 06:40 PM
Sandy
#11
Posted 13 June 2004 - 09:59 PM
HEY!!!!NP, are all those symptoms hypoglycemia or pregnancy? Scubahoney needs to be real clear on the difference! Tom
Thanks for sticking up for me while I was away guys!
Tom-I'm hypoglycemic...not pregnant..and I'm 100% sure...and I resent the implication....heehee not really I just like to give people a hard time.
Man, if I don't stop throwing up in the mornings, and those cravings for pickles and peanut butter....
~Jacques Cousteau
#12
Posted 13 June 2004 - 10:06 PM
Happy to help!!
#13
Posted 13 June 2004 - 10:47 PM
~Jacques Cousteau
#14
Posted 08 October 2004 - 12:46 PM
By choosing pre-dive foods that digest slowly (like the foods that we primarily evolved on), hypoglycemia can be completely avoided.
Healthy, low-glycemic foods include nuts ("good fat” cholesterol-lowering nuts such as walnuts and macadamia nuts are the best), lean meats, and unsweetened berries.
Foods that are sugary, full of processed flour, starchy, "low fat", high-glycemic or those that otherwise stimulate the body's release of insulin (including processed dairy products) will only make your hypoglycemia worse.
I was trained as a scientist, but don't just take my word for it! Years of research by the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Medicine, or the Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University has produced tomes of indisputable evidence regarding diabetes and hypoglycemia and its link with modern, often supposedly "healthy" food.
And try it yourself! Eat a handful of walnuts or macadamia nuts or other healthy low-glycemic food 20 minutes before a dive or other activity where you often feel the lows from hypoglycemia. You will notice the difference.
And if you think that all that fat will make you fat, remember this: A quickly digested food such as sugar and flour will more likely be stored as fat (because it has nowhere else to go but your fat cells) than a slowly digesting food such as higher fat nuts, in which you are more likely to burn ALL of the calories rather than just a few.
Some references:
Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, MD, USC Medical School
Dr. Loren Cordain, PhD Department of Health and Exercise Science at Colorado State University
Dr. Walter C. Willet, MD, PHD Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Medicine
- Kent
#15
Posted 08 October 2004 - 01:31 PM
Thanks for the good info. CUTE avatar, by the way
Laura
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