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A young man was arrested by the police and was taken to the emergency ward of a hospital, after he knocked down an 18years old girl with his power bike, and suffered multiple injuries himself. I watch as he tried to resist police arrest. He struggled and yelled at the top of his voice, bleeding from wounds on his left brow, forehead, right ankle, knees and left forearm.

It took the effort of five able bodied policemen to bundle him into the waiting police van. He kicked and cursed as he was taken to the nearest hospital; he was actually bleeding profusely from the left brow and needed to be taken to the hospital fast. I followed the police van on a motor bike; I needed to see what happened at the hospital as the young man’s behaviour was completely strange to me.

Hypoglycaemia occurs when the level of glucose in the blood falls to 3.3mmol/l or less. Obviously this varies in different people (we’re all different), but this is the now recognised level.

It is not a result of diabetes itself; after all, diabetes is a reflection of high levels of glucose in the blood. The problem is, so many things affect blood glucose levels, that whilst your doctor can prescribe, quite properly, drugs or insulin with the appropriate doses, some unusual exercise or skipping a meal, can cause the medication to lower the blood glucose to such an extent, that a “hypo” occurs.

These events are usually mild in nature, and easily rectified with a couple of glucose tablets or a sugary drink with about 15 grams of glucose in it. Generally you should then wait 20 minutes, particularly if you are operating machinery, including a car, and then take your blood glucose level again.