Diabetes: Hypoglycemia does not Impaired Cognition In Children with Type 1 Diabetes
Under results of a new study, hypoglycemia, which is a drop in levels of blood sugar, and is severe sufficient to cause seizures or coma in youthful children with type 1 diabetes (those who create the disease notably early in life) doesn’t appear to result in impairments in mental capacity or habit.
According to experts and scientific evidence, the hippocampus (a region of the brain) is mainly sensitive to prolonged episodes of severe hypoglycemia. And experts stated that “young children with type 1 diabetes are at greatest risk of severe hypoglycemic incidents, and this has focused concern on the potential for hypoglycemic insult to affect on central nervous system development”.
After compare 41 type 1 diabetic adolescents and children -who had a history of hypoglycemia with coma or seizure- to 43 similar diabetic subjects but without a history of severe hypoglycemic incidents, findings prove that a subgroup of patients who had early first seizure showed more episodes of hypoglycemic seizure or coma in comparison to those who experienced a seizure at an older age.
The team applied different tests of learning and memory, but in addition intellectual and behavioral tests. The astounding thing is that there were no meaningful differences among the seizure and no-seizure groups on the intellectual, memory or behavioral decisions.
The main conclusion of the report is that results provide “some reassurance to those treating children with type 1 diabetes with intensive antidote that seizures/coma at a youthful age doesn’t necessarily result in gross cognitive or behavioral impairment”.
