Misdiagnosis of Hidden Causes of Hypoglycemia
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Underlying conditions list:
The list of possible underlying conditions
mentioned in various sources
for Hypoglycemia includes:
- Chronic hypoglycemia (see Hypoglycemia) - including various types of hypoglycemia:
- Reactive hypoglycemia
- Fasting hypoglycemia
- Diabetes - hypos are caused by the treatments for diabetes rather than diabetes itself
- Pregnancy
- Fasting
- Strenuous exercise
- Alcoholism
- Binge drinking (type of Alcohol abuse)
- Insulinoma
- Other causes of symptom hypoglycemia
- Hereditary enzyme deficiencies
- Hormone deficiencies
- Liver disease
- Insulinoma
- Hereditary fructose intolerance
- Galactosemia
- Growth hormone deficiency
- IGF-II producing tumors
- Breast cancer
- Adrenal cancer
- Acidemia, methylmalonic - low blood sugar
- Maple syrup urine disease, type II - hypoglycemic crisis
- Malonic aciduria - low blood sugar
- Glutaric Aciduria, neonatal form of type II A - low blood sugar
- Forbes disease - low blood sugar
- Electron Transfer Flavoprotein, deficiency of - low blood sugar
- Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase deficiency - hypoglycemia
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Fructose-1, 6-diphosphatase deficiency
- Pentamidine
- Idiopathic hypoglycaemia
- Nesidioblastosis
- Maple syrup urine disease - hypoglycemic crisis
- Ritonavir
- Insulin
- Mesothelioma
- Hypoglycemic attack
- Type 1 diabetes - Hypoglycemia
- Malaria - hypoglycemia
- Organic acidemia - low blood sugar
- Inborn urea cycle disorder - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism, focal - hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinism due to glucokinase deficiency - low blood sugar
- HMG CoA synthetase deficiency - hypoglycemia
- Chromosome 6q duplication syndrome - hypoglycemia
- Adrenal hypoplasia congenital, X-linked - low blood sugar
- Ackee Fruit Food poisoning - hypoglycemia
- Achalasia - Addisonianism - Alacrimia syndrome - low blood sugar
- Insulin receptor antibodies
- Chlorpropamide
- Tolbutamide
- Starvation (acute)
- Nateglinide
- Fructose intolerance
- Levomepromazine
- Mitiglinide
- Jamaican vomiting sickness
- Leucine-induced hypoglycaemia
- Repaglinide
- Type 2 diabetes - Hypoglycemia
- Timme syndrome - low blood sugar
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency - low blood sugar
- Metastatic insulinoma - fasting hypoglycemia
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 1A - hypoglycemic crisis
- Jacobsen syndrome - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 1 - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease type 6 - low blood sugar
- Chromosome 15q triplication syndrome - hypoglycemia
- Glycogenosis type 6
- Saquinavir
- Pipothiazine
- Quinine
- Glibenclamide
- Liver cancer, primary
- Von Gierke disease IA - low blood sugar
- Oriental Hornet poisoning - low blood sugar
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 1B - hypoglycemic crisis
- Hypoketonemic hypoglycemia - low blood sugar
- Hypoglycemia, leucine-induced - hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 2 - low blood sugar
- Dicarboxylicaminoaciduria - hypoglycemia
- Diabetic Gastroparesis - Diabetic hypo
- Addison's Disease - Hypoglycemia
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy - low blood sugar
- Gliclazide
- Dopamine beta-hydroxylase deficiency
- Reye's syndrome - low blood sugar
- Von Gierke disease IB - low blood sugar
- Systemic monochloroacetate poisoning - hypoglycemia
- Short-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) deficiency - low blood sugar
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (functioning tumor) - low blood sugar
- Pancreatic adenoma - low blood sugar
- Nephroblastomatosis, fetal ascites, macrosomia and Wilms tumor - low blood sugar
- Neonatal bacterial meningitis - hypoglycemia
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 - hypoglycemia
- Insulin-resistance type B - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 3 - low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency - low blood sugar
- Glutaricaciduria 2B - low blood sugar
- Endomyocardial fibroelastosis - low blood sugar
- Adrenal Cortex Diseases - low blood sugar
- Ethionamide
- Propionyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency
- Perazine
- Glipizide
- Glycogenosis type 8
- Glisoxepide
- Laron dwarfism
- Hepatic failure
- Diabetic hypo
- Hypoglycemia - including various types of hypoglycemia:
- Tyrosinemia - low blood sugar
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (non-functioning tumor) - hypoglycemia
- Nephroblastomatosis - fetal ascites - macrosomia - wilms tumor - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism in children, congenital - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 4 - low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome - low blood sugar
- Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor - fasting hypoglycemia
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1 deficiency - low blood sugar
- Acute liver failure - hypoglycemia
- Insulin like growth factor 1
- Glutaric acidemia type 2
- Autoimmune adrenalitis
- PEPCK 1 deficiency - low blood sugar
- Maple syrup urine disease, type III - hypoglycemic crisis
- Hyperinsulinism, diffuse - hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 5 - low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome, systemic - low blood sugar
- Herbal Agent overdose - Ginseng - low blood sugar
- Glucocorticoid deficiency, familial - hypoglycemia
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, infantile hepatocardiomuscular type - low blood sugar
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency - low blood sugar
- Glycogenosis type 1a
- Gliquidone
- Leprechaunism
- Delayed separation blood sample
- Sheehan Syndrome - hypoglycemic crisis
- PEPCK 2 deficiency - low blood sugar
- Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 6 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemia - chronic hypoglycemia
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Ginseng - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease type 6A, due to phosphorylase kinase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Adverse reaction to chemical - 1,1-Dichloroethene - low blood sugar
- ACTH Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Glycogenosis type 1b
- Glisolamide
- Drip arm sample
- Lanreotide
- Postgastrectomy syndrome
- Adrenal cortex insufficiency
- Tyrosinaemia type 1
- Long chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
- Short stature - pituitary and cerebellar defects - small sella turcica - low blood sugar
- Pancreatic cancer, adult - hypoglycemia
- Leucinosis - low blood sugar
- Hypoglycemia with deficiency of glycogen synthetase in the liver - hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 7 - low blood sugar
- Histidinuria, renal tubular defect - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease type 1C - low blood sugar
- Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1B - hypoglycemia
- Cleft lip palate pituitary deficiency - hypoglycemia
- Carnitine transporter deficiency - low blood sugar
- ACAD9 deficiency - hypoglycemia
- Glimepiride
- Acetohexamide
- Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- HMG-CoA lyase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Chloramphenicol
- Insulin shock
- Glycogen storage disease type 1D - low blood sugar
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, hereditary - low blood sugar
- Coenzyme Q cytochrome c reductase deficiency of - low blood sugar
- Addisonian crisis - hypoglycemia
- 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, type 4 - low blood sugar
- Malonyl-CoA decarboxylase deficiency
- Somatostatin
- Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome
- Hypopituitarism
- Von Gierke Disease - Low blood sugar
- Rimbaud-Passouant-Vallat syndrome - hypoglycemia
- Pyridoxamine 5-prime-phosphate oxidase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Pituitary dwarfism 1 - hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinism due to glutamodehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Glutaric aciduria type II - hypoglycemia
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation - hypoglycemia
- Baker-Winegrad disease - fasting hypoglycemia
- Alpers Syndrome - fasting hypoglycemia
- Malaria (malignant tertian)
- Carnitine deficiency (systemic)
- Glycogenosis type 3
- Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase deficiency
- Ethanol
- Tolazamide
- Amprenavir
- Chlorpromazine
- Visceral leishmaniasis
- Growth hormone deficiency (congenital)
- Clinical hypoglycemia (see Hypoglycemia)
- Anti insulin antibodies
- Post prandial hypoglycaemia
- Myxoedema
- Sepsis
- Liver failure
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Renal failure
- Excess use of insulin
- Extrapancreatic tumours
- Drugs
- Acute alcohol intoxication (see Alcohol abuse)
Other underlying conditions related to Hypoglycemia:
Source: Diseases Database
Hypoglycemia as a complication:
Other conditions that might have
Hypoglycemia as a complication
might be potential underlying conditions.
The list of conditions listing
Hypoglycemia as a complication
includes:
Hypoglycemia Causes: Book Excerpts
Hypoglycemia as a symptom:
Conditions listing Hypoglycemia
as a symptom may also be potential underlying conditions.
For a more detailed analysis of Hypoglycemia as a symptom, including causes, drug side effect causes, and drug interaction causes, please see our Symptom Center information for Hypoglycemia.
- 3-alpha-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- 3-alpha-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency
- 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, type 4
- ACAD9 deficiency
- Achalasia - addisonianism - alacrima syndrome
- Achalasia - Addisonianism - Alacrimia syndrome
- Ackee Fruit Food poisoning
- ACTH Deficiency
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- Acute liver failure
- Acute meningitis
- Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency of
- Addison's Disease
- Addisonian crisis
- Adrenal Cortex Diseases
- Adrenal disorders
- Adrenal hypoplasia congenital, X-linked
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Adverse reaction to chemical - 1,1-Dichloroethene
- Bacterial meningitis
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1 deficiency
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, infantile hepatocardiomuscular type
- Carnitine transporter deficiency
- Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase deficiency
- CDG syndrome type 1B
- Chromosome 15q triplication syndrome
- Chromosome 6, trisomy 6q
- Chromosome 6q duplication syndrome
- Cleft lip palate pituitary deficiency
- Coenzyme Q cytochrome c reductase deficiency of
- Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1B
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
- Dicarboxylicaminoaciduria
- Duplication 6q
- Electron Transfer Flavoprotein, deficiency of
- Endomyocardial fibroelastosis
- Forbes disease
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, hereditary
- Glucocorticoid deficiency, familial
- Glutaric aciduria 2
- Glutaric aciduria type II
- Glutaric Aciduria, neonatal form of type II A
- Glutaricaciduria 2B
- Glycogen branching deficiency
- Glycogen debranching deficiency
- Glycogen storage disease type 1C
- Glycogen storage disease type 1D
- Glycogen storage disease type 6
- Glycogen storage disease type 6A, due to phosphorylase kinase deficiency
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type I
- HADH deficiency
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Clove
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction - Ginseng
- Herbal Agent overdose - Ginseng
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome, systemic
- Histidinuria, renal tubular defect
- HMG CoA synthetase deficiency
- HMG-CoA lyase deficiency
- Hyperinsulinemia
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 1
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 2
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 3
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 4
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 5
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 6
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 7
- Hyperinsulinism due to glucokinase deficiency
- Hyperinsulinism due to glutamodehydrogenase deficiency
- Hyperinsulinism in children, congenital
- Hyperinsulinism, diffuse
- Hyperinsulinism, focal
- Hypoglycemia with deficiency of glycogen synthetase in the liver
- Hypoglycemia, leucine-induced
- Hypoketonemic hypoglycemia
- Inborn urea cycle disorder
- Insulin-resistance type B
- Jacobsen syndrome
- L-3-alpha-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency
- LADHSC deficiency
- Leucinosis
- Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency
- M/SCHAD deficiency
- Malonic aciduria
- Medium and long chan 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency
- Medium and short chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
- Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- MGA 4
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency
- Myxedema coma
- Neonatal bacterial meningitis
- Nephroblastomatosis - fetal ascites - macrosomia - wilms tumor
- Nephroblastomatosis, fetal ascites, macrosomia and Wilms tumor
- Organic acidemia
- Oriental Hornet poisoning
- Pancreatic adenoma
- Pancreatic cancer, adult
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (functioning tumor)
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (non-functioning tumor)
- PEPCK 1 deficiency
- PEPCK 2 deficiency
- Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) deficiency
- Pituitary dwarfism 1
- Pyridoxamine 5-prime-phosphate oxidase deficiency
- Reye's Syndrome
- Rimbaud-Passouant-Vallat syndrome
- SCHAD Deficiency - formerly
- Short Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SCAD)
- Short stature - pituitary and cerebellar defects - small sella turcica
- Short-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency
- Systemic monochloroacetate poisoning
- Timme syndrome
- Tyrosinemia
- Von Gierke Disease
- Von Gierke disease IA
- Von Gierke disease IB
Discussion of underlying conditions of Hypoglycemia:
Hypoglycemia: NIDDK (Excerpt)
The most common cause of hypoglycemia is as a
complication of diabetes. Diabetes occurs when the body cannot use glucose
for fuel because either the pancreas is not able to make enough insulin or
the insulin that is available is not effective. As a result, glucose
builds up in the blood instead of getting into body cells.
The aim of treatment in diabetes is to lower high blood sugar levels.
To do this, people with diabetes may use insulin or oral drugs, depending
on the type of diabetes they have or the severity of their condition.
Hypoglycemia occurs most often in people who use insulin to lower their
blood sugar. All people with type 1 diabetes and some people with type 2
diabetes use insulin. People with type 2 diabetes who take oral drugs
called sulfonylureas are also vulnerable to low blood sugar episodes.
(Source: excerpt from Hypoglycemia: NIDDK)
Hypoglycemia: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Hypoglycemia in people who do not have diabetes
is far less common than once believed. However, it can occur in some
people under certain conditions such as early pregnancy, prolonged
fasting, and long periods of strenuous exercise. People on beta blocker
medications who exercise are at higher risk of hypoglycemia, and aspirin
can induce hypoglycemia in some children. Drinking alcohol can cause blood
sugar to drop in some sensitive individuals, and hypoglycemia has been
well documented in chronic alcoholics and binge drinkers. Eating unripe
ackee fruit from Jamaica is a rare cause of low blood sugar.
(Source: excerpt from Hypoglycemia: NIDDK)
Hypoglycemia: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Fasting hypoglycemia occurs when the stomach is empty. It usually
develops in the early morning when a person awakens. As with other forms
of hypoglycemia, the symptoms include headache, lack of energy, and an
inability to concentrate. Fasting hypoglycemia may be caused by a variety
of conditions such as hereditary enzyme or hormone deficiencies, liver
disease, and insulin-producing tumors.
In hereditary fructose intolerance, a disorder usually seen in
children, the body is unable to metabolize the natural sugar fructose.
Attacks of hypoglycemia, marked by seizures, vomiting, and
unconsciousness, are treated by giving glucose and eliminating fructose
from the diet.
Galactosemia, a rare genetic disorder, hampers the body's ability to
process the sugar galactose. An infant with this disorder may appear
normal at birth, but after a few days or weeks of drinking milk (which
contains galactose), the child may begin to vomit, lose weight, and
develop cataracts. The liver may fail to release stored glycogen into the
blood, triggering hypoglycemia. Removing milk from the diet is the usual
treatment.
A deficiency of growth hormone causes increased sensitivity to insulin.
This sensitivity occurs because growth hormone opposes the action of
insulin on muscle and fat cells. For this reason, children with growth
hormone deficiency sometimes suffer from hypoglycemia, which goes away
after treatment.
People with insulin-producing tumors, which arise in the islet cells of
the pancreas, suffer from severe episodes of hypoglycemia.
To diagnose these tumors, called insulinomas, a doctor will put the
patient on a 24- to 72-hour fast while measuring blood levels of glucose,
insulin, and proinsulin. High levels of insulin and proinsulin in the
presence of low levels of glucose strongly suggest an insulin-producing
tumor. These tumors are usually benign and can be surgically removed.
In rare cases, some cancers such as breast cancer and adrenal cancer
may cause hypoglycemia through secretion of a hormone called insulin-like
growth factor II. The treatment is removal of the tumor, if possible.
(Source: excerpt from Hypoglycemia: NIDDK)
About underlying conditions:
With a diagnosis of Hypoglycemia,
it is important to consider
whether there is an underlying condition causing Hypoglycemia.
These are other medical conditions that may possibly
cause Hypoglycemia.
For general information on this form of misdiagnosis, see Underlying Condition Misdiagnosis
or Overview of Misdiagnosis.
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