I know hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia are the opposite, but what’s the difference and is one just like diabetes?
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glycos is sugar, hyperglycemia is having too much blood in your sugar. You would get that from having a disease called diabetes mellitus, which is like, a latin name which basically means “sweet pee” because you pee a bunch of sweet water when you have too much sugar in your blood. The two main types of diabetes is type 1 where your body doesn’t make the chemical that is supposed to get sugar out of your blood and type 2 where your body makes the chemical just fine but it doesn’t work to make your body actually take it out.
hypoglycemia is having too little sugar, and in medical context it mostly happens when you inject a bunch of stuff to lower your blood sugar but didn’t actually have high blood sugar at that time and it goes too low.
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