Low Blood Sugar

Low Blood Sugar 101: Tips for the Newly Diagnosed

If you’ve ever heard your doctor talk about hypoglycemia, that’s a fancy clinical name for low blood sugar. Low blood...

Overcoming Low Blood Sugar Fear with Diabetes

Low blood sugar—aka hypoglycemia—is one of the scariest parts of living with diabetes. Low blood sugar may force you to...

Oral Meds for Type 2 Diabetes: Understanding the Risk of Low Blood Sugar

If you live with type 2 diabetes (T2D), you might be taking oral medications or using insulin to manage your...

How to Handle Nighttime Lows with Type 2 Diabetes

Nighttime lows—aka nocturnal hypoglycemia—can be scary and dangerous. Especially if your doctor has never talked to you about them before....

Heat + Diabetes: Why It’s Crucial to Monitor Blood Sugar in Hot Weather

Controlling blood-sugar levels becomes more crucial in the summer heat, especially for those who have diabetes. Extreme heat can impact...

Hypoglycemia and Outdoor Activities

Hypoglycemia is a term to describe low blood sugar. For people with diabetes, blood sugar below 3.9 mmol/L70 mg/dL is...

What Is Hypoglycemia + How to Treat It

Hypoglycemia is also known as low blood sugar.  If you live with diabetes and take any form of blood-sugar-lowering medication,...

Not All Sugars Are the Same: Using Glucose to Treat Hypoglycemia

If you could relieve your low blood sugar symptoms more quickly, would you?  Low blood sugars—also known as hypoglycemia—can be...

The Best Fast-Acting Carbs to Treat Low Blood Sugar

Low blood sugars can be  one of the hardest  parts about living with diabetes.Even if you’re an excellent self-manager, you...

5 Tips to Stop Overtreating Low Blood Sugar

Sensitive Topic Warning: For some people, eating a lot of food all at once when their blood sugar is low...

Treating Low Blood Sugar as You Age with Diabetes

As you get older, your body and mind change, and that affects how you feel when your blood sugar is...

How to Support Students with Diabetes

A student with type 1 diabetes (T1D) may need support at school from teachers or fellow classmates because of low...

Exercise + Diabetes: How to Avoid Low Blood Sugar

Exercise can be challenging if you live with diabetes and take insulin or use other blood-sugar-lowering medications. Nothing makes exercising...

Don’t Let Low Blood Sugar Ruin Your Vacation!

As a person with type 2 diabetes, experiencing severe low blood sugar levels is scary whether you are close to...

Low Blood Sugar During Sex: Diabetes Intimacy Tips That Actually Work

Diabetes doesn’t mean less sex—just smarter sex. Plan ahead to prevent low blood sugar during sex, and keep things safe.

How to Handle a Low Blood Sugar When Alone in Public

Learn how to stay safe during hypoglycemia in public with quick actions, emergency tools and real advice from people living...

Cannabis + Diabetes: What You Should Know

Weed, pot, flower, Mary Jane and grass. As the most widely used, federally illegal drug, cannabis has many street names....

Love Someone with Diabetes? How to Help During a Low Blood Sugar Episode

Low blood sugar can make people with diabetes (PWD) feel exhausted, frustrated and scared. Sometimes, PWD need support during low...