Causes of Hypoglycemia
Introduction: Hypoglycemia
There are many potential causes of hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia can happen by itself or can be a symptom of or occur with a variety of mild to serious diseases, disorders and conditions.
A potentially serious form of hypoglycemia occurs in people with diabetes who have an insulin reaction. Insulin is an injectable drug that is used to treat the high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) caused by diabetes. Sometimes a person with diabetes may take too much insulin or not eat enough carbohydrates. This can result in too low of a blood sugar or hypoglycemia. Sometimes the blood sugar can get very low and result in unconsciousness.
Hypoglycemia can also occur in some people after drinking alcohol, especially large amounts of alcohol. Hypoglycemia can also be caused by over-exercising and not eating enough carbohydrates and by starvation dieting and fasting.
Serious disease, disorders and conditions that can also increase the risk of developing hypoglycemia include hepatitis, type 1 diabetes, insulin-secreting tumors of the pancreas, kidney disease, Addison's disease and liver disease. Hypoglycemia can also be a side effect of some medications. In some cases, it is not possible to diagnose the underlying cause of hypoglycemia.
Causes of Hypoglycemia:
The following medical conditions are some of the possible
causes of Hypoglycemia.
There are likely to be other possible causes, so ask your doctor
about your symptoms.
Causes of Hypoglycemia listed in Disease Database:
Other medical conditions listed in the Disease Database as possible
causes of Hypoglycemia as a symptom include:
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Conditions listing medical symptoms: Hypoglycemia:
The following list of conditions
have 'Hypoglycemia' or similar
listed as a symptom in our database.
This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
Select from the following alphabetical view of conditions which
include a symptom of Hypoglycemia or choose View All.
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- HADH deficiency
... low blood sugar
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction -- Clove
... low blood sugar
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction -- Ginseng
... low blood sugar
- Herbal Agent overdose -- Ginseng
... low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency
... low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome
... low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome, systemic
... low blood sugar
- Histidinuria, renal tubular defect
... low blood sugar
- HMG CoA synthetase deficiency
... hypoglycemia
- HMG-CoA lyase deficiency
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemia
... hypoglycemic attack, hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 1
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 2
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 3
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 4
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 5
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 6
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 7
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism due to glucokinase deficiency
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism due to glutamodehydrogenase deficiency
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism in children, congenital
... low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism, diffuse
... hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinism, focal
... hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemia with deficiency of glycogen synthetase in the liver
... hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemia, leucine-induced
... hypoglycemia
- Hypoketonemic hypoglycemia
... low blood sugar
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Conditions listing medical complications: Hypoglycemia:
The following list of medical conditions have 'Hypoglycemia'
or similar listed as a medical complication in our database.
This computer-generated list of complications may be inaccurate or incomplete.
Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause
of any symptom.
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- Diabetes
... Hypoglycemia
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 1
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 10
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 11
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 12
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 13
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 15
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 17
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 18
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 19
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 2
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 20
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 21
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 22
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 23
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 24
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 3
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 4
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 5
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 6
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 7
... low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 8
... low blood sugar
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More Information About Hypoglycemia
List of 284
causes of Hypoglycemia
This section shows a full list of all the diseases and conditions listed as a possible cause
of Hypoglycemia in our database from various sources.
- 3-alpha-Hydroxyacyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency - low blood sugar
- 3-alpha-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- 3-methylglutaconic aciduria, type 4 - low blood sugar
- ACAD9 deficiency - hypoglycemia
- Acetohexamide
- Achalasia -- addisonianism -- alacrima syndrome - low blood sugar
- Achalasia -- Addisonianism -- Alacrimia syndrome - low blood sugar
- Acidemia, methylmalonic - low blood sugar
- Acidemia, propionic - hypoglycemia
- Ackee Fruit Food poisoning - hypoglycemia
- Acquired hypopituitarism
- ACTH Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy - low blood sugar
- Acute liver failure - hypoglycemia
- Acute meningitis - Hypoglycemia
- Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency of - low blood sugar
- Addison's disease - Hypoglycemia
- Addisonian crisis - hypoglycemia
- Adenoma, Islet Cell - low blood sugar
- Adrenal cancer
- Adrenal Cortex Diseases - low blood sugar
- Adrenal cortex insufficiency
- Adrenal hypoplasia congenital, X-linked - low blood sugar
- Adrenal insufficiency
- Adverse reaction to chemical -- 1,1-Dichloroethene - low blood sugar
- Alcoholism
- Alpers Syndrome - fasting hypoglycemia
- Amprenavir
- Autoimmune adrenalitis
- Bacterial meningitis - Hypoglycemia
- Baker-Winegrad disease - fasting hypoglycemia
- Binge drinking
- Breast cancer
- Burns
- Carnitine deficiency (systemic)
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1 deficiency - low blood sugar
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase 2 deficiency - low blood sugar
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase I Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Carnitine Palmitoyl Transferase II Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Carnitine palmitoyl transferase II deficiency, infantile hepatocardiomuscular type - low blood sugar
- Carnitine transporter deficiency - low blood sugar
- Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase deficiency - hypoglycemia
- CDG syndrome type 1B - hypoglycemia
- Chloramphenicol
- Chlorpromazine
- Chlorpropamide
- Chromosome 11, Partial Monosomy 11q - Low blood sugar
- Chromosome 15q triplication syndrome - hypoglycemia
- Chromosome 6, trisomy 6q - Hypoglycemia
- Chromosome 6q duplication syndrome - hypoglycemia
- Chronic hypoglycemia
- Cleft lip palate pituitary deficiency - hypoglycemia
- Clinical hypoglycemia
- Coenzyme Q cytochrome c reductase deficiency of - low blood sugar
- Congenital disorder of glycosylation type 1B - hypoglycemia
- Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation - hypoglycemia
- Congenital hyperinsulinism
- Delayed separation blood sample
- Diabetes - Hypoglycemia
- Diabetes mellitus
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 1 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 10 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 11 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 12 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 13 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 15 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 17 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 18 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 19 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 2 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 20 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 21 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 22 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 23 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 24 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 3 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 4 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 5 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 6 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 7 - low blood sugar
- Diabetes Mellitus, Insulin-Dependent, Susceptibility to, 8 - low blood sugar
- Diabetic Gastroparesis - Diabetic hypo
- Diabetic hypo
- Dicarboxylicaminoaciduria - hypoglycemia
- Dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase deficiency
- Doege-Potter syndrome
- Dopamine beta-hydroxylase deficiency
- Drip arm sample
- Dumping syndrome
- Duplication 6q - Hypoglycemia
- Electron Transfer Flavoprotein, deficiency of - low blood sugar
- Endomyocardial fibroelastosis - low blood sugar
- Ethanol
- Ethionamide
- Fasting
- Fasting hypoglycemia
- Forbes disease - low blood sugar
- Fructose intolerance
- Fructose-1, 6-diphosphatase deficiency
- Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase deficiency, hereditary - low blood sugar
- Functioning pancreatic endocrine tumor - fasting hypoglycemia
- Galactosemia
- Galactosemia I - hypoglycemic crisis
- Glibenclamide
- Gliclazide
- Glimepiride
- Glipizide
- Gliquidone
- Glisolamide
- Glisoxepide
- Glucocorticoid deficiency, familial - hypoglycemia
- Glutaric acidemia type 2
- Glutaric Acidemia Type II - hypoglycemia
- Glutaric aciduria 2 - low blood sugar
- Glutaric aciduria type II - hypoglycemia
- Glutaric Aciduria, neonatal form of type II A - low blood sugar
- Glutaricaciduria 2B - low blood sugar
- Glycogen branching deficiency - low blood sugar
- Glycogen debranching deficiency - Low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease
- Glycogen Storage Disease IXa1 - hypoglycemia
- Glycogen Storage Disease IXc - hypoglycemia
- Glycogen storage disease type 1C - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease type 1D - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease type 6 - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage disease type 6A, due to phosphorylase kinase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Glycogen Storage Disease Type I - low blood sugar
- Glycogen storage diseases - hypoglycemia
- Glycogenosis type 1a
- Glycogenosis type 1b
- Glycogenosis type 3
- Glycogenosis type 6
- Glycogenosis type 8
- Growth hormone deficiency
- Growth hormone deficiency (congenital)
- HADH deficiency - low blood sugar
- Hepatic failure
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction -- Clove - low blood sugar
- Herbal Agent adverse reaction -- Ginseng - low blood sugar
- Herbal Agent overdose -- Ginseng - low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency - low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome - low blood sugar
- Hereditary carnitine deficiency syndrome, systemic - low blood sugar
- Hereditary enzyme deficiencies
- Histidinuria, renal tubular defect - low blood sugar
- HMG CoA synthetase deficiency - hypoglycemia
- HMG-CoA lyase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Hormone deficiencies
- Hyperinsulinemia - chronic hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 1 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 2 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 3 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 4 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 5 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 6 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia, familial, 7 - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism due to glucokinase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism due to glutamodehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism in children, congenital - low blood sugar
- Hyperinsulinism, diffuse - hypoglycemia
- Hyperinsulinism, focal - hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemia - including various types of hypoglycemia:
- Hypoglycemia with deficiency of glycogen synthetase in the liver - hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemia, leucine-induced - hypoglycemia
- Hypoglycemic attack
- Hypoketonemic hypoglycemia - low blood sugar
- Hypopituitarism
- Idiopathic hypoglycaemia
- IGF-II producing tumors
- Immunopathologic hypoglycaemia
- Inborn urea cycle disorder - low blood sugar
- Insulin
- Insulin injection in type 1 diabetes
- Insulin like growth factor 1
- Insulin receptor antibodies
- Insulin shock
- Insulin-resistance type B - low blood sugar
- Insulinoma - fasting hypoglycemia
- Jacobsen syndrome - low blood sugar
- Jamaican vomiting sickness
- Ketotic hypoglycaemia
- L-3-alpha-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency - low blood sugar
- LADHSC deficiency - low blood sugar
- Lanreotide
- Laron dwarfism
- Leprechaunism
- Leucine-induced hypoglycaemia
- Leucinosis - low blood sugar
- Levomepromazine
- Liver cancer, primary
- Liver disease
- Long chain hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency
- Long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Long-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency - Low blood sugar
- M/SCHAD deficiency - low blood sugar
- Malabsorption
- Malaria - hypoglycemia
- Malaria (malignant tertian)
- Malnutrition
- Malonic aciduria - low blood sugar
- Malonyl-CoA decarboxylase deficiency
- Maple syrup urine disease - hypoglycemic crisis
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 1A - hypoglycemic crisis
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 1B - hypoglycemic crisis
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 2 - Hypoglycemic crisis
- Maple syrup urine disease, type 3 - Hypoglycemic crisis
- Maple syrup urine disease, type II - hypoglycemic crisis
- Maple syrup urine disease, type III - hypoglycemic crisis
- Medium and long chan 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Medium and short chain 3-hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Mesothelioma
- Metastatic insulinoma - fasting hypoglycemia
- Methylmalonic acidemia - low blood sugar
- MGA 4 - low blood sugar
- Mitiglinide
- Mitochondrial trifunctional protein deficiency - low blood sugar
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 - hypoglycemia
- Myxedema coma - Hypoglycemia
- Nateglinide
- Neonatal bacterial meningitis - hypoglycemia
- Nephroblastomatosis -- fetal ascites -- macrosomia -- wilms tumor - low blood sugar
- Nephroblastomatosis, fetal ascites, macrosomia and Wilms tumor - low blood sugar
- Nesidioblastosis
- Organic acidemia - low blood sugar
- Oriental Hornet poisoning - low blood sugar
- Other causes of symptom hypoglycemia
- Pancreatic adenoma - low blood sugar
- Pancreatic cancer, adult - hypoglycemia
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (functioning tumor) - low blood sugar
- Pancreatic islet cell tumors (non-functioning tumor) - hypoglycemia
- Pancreatic tumour
- Pentamidine
- PEPCK 1 deficiency - low blood sugar
- PEPCK 2 deficiency - low blood sugar
- PEPCK Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Perazine
- Perinatal asphyxia
- Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) deficiency - low blood sugar
- Pipothiazine
- Pituitary dwarfism 1 - hypoglycemia
- Postgastrectomy syndrome
- Postprandial syndrome
- Pregnancy
- Prolonged fasting
- Propionic Acidemia - hypoglycemia
- Propionyl-CoA carboxylase deficiency
- Pyridoxamine 5-prime-phosphate oxidase deficiency - low blood sugar
- Quinine
- Reactive hypoglycemia
- Repaglinide
- Reye's syndrome - low blood sugar
- Rimbaud-Passouant-Vallat syndrome - hypoglycemia
- Ritonavir
- Saquinavir
- SCHAD Deficiency -- formerly - low blood sugar
- Sepsis
- Septicemia
- Sheehan Syndrome - hypoglycemic crisis
- Shock
- Short Chain Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (SCAD) - low blood sugar
- Short stature -- pituitary and cerebellar defects -- small sella turcica - low blood sugar
- Short-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency - low blood sugar
- Somatostatin
- Starvation (acute)
- Strenuous exercise
- Systemic monochloroacetate poisoning - hypoglycemia
- Timme syndrome - low blood sugar
- Tolazamide
- Tolbutamide
- Tumours
- Type 1 diabetes - Hypoglycemia
- Type 2 diabetes - Hypoglycemia
- Type I Glycogen Storage Disease - Low blood sugar
- Type III Glycogen Storage Disease - Low blood sugar
- Tyrosinaemia type 1
- Tyrosinemia - low blood sugar
- Tyrosinemia Type I - Low blood sugar
- Visceral leishmaniasis
- Von Gierke Disease - Low blood sugar
- Von Gierke disease IA - low blood sugar
- Von Gierke disease IB - low blood sugar
- Wiedemann-Beckwith syndrome
Hypoglycemia: Tools
Drug side effect causes of Hypoglycemia
The following drugs, medications, substances or toxins
may possibly cause Hypoglycemia as a side effect.
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See detailed list of 6
drug side effect causes of Hypoglycemia]
Drug interaction causes of Hypoglycemia:
Drug interactions may be a possible cause of Hypoglycemia.
- Acitretin and Glyburide interaction
- Lisinopril and antidiabetes drug interaction
- Prinvil and antidiabetes drug interaction
- Zestril and antidiabetes drug interaction
- Lisinopril and insulin interaction
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drug interaction causes of Hypoglycemia]
