When the insulin doses become powerful enough to cause insulin shock (profuse sweating, coma), Dr. Sakel is ready for the second, or shock phase of his treatment. This consists of inducing coma ...

Medically reviewed by Danielle Weiss, MD Insulin overdose symptoms can include confusion, fatigue, irritability, shaking, and ...

This coma usually develops slowly over several days ... Hypoglycaemia or low blood glucose levels (below 3.5 mmol/l), occurs when a person on insulin takes an extra dose or an increased dose.

About the 10th week of gestation, there is an improvement in glucose tolerance manifesting itself as insulin coma, milder insulin reaction, or an improvement in the degree of compensation.

A woman diabetic patient died after an overdose of insulin which a government hospital had asked her to administer with a syringe purchased from a private pharmacy. It has transpired that the woman, ...

Type 1 diabetes is a condition where our immune system destroys the insulin-making cells that exist in pancreas. These ...

A baby allegedly poisoned with insulin by Lucy Letby was left at risk of coma and death, an expert has told the nurse's murder trial. Ms Letby is accused of attempting to kill the boy, referred to ...

I ended up in a coma for two days because they waited so long to treat the seizure. Narrator Type One diabetes occurs when the body's own immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing ...