Wuhan Evening News (correspondent Jing Tong and Wang Hong) Mr. Zhou, who lives in Qiaokou, worried that the unfinished dumplings at home would be wasted, so he ate 56 dumplings in two consecutive meals. Less than an hour after eating the second meal of dumplings, the old man fainted. The family called 120 to send him to the Gutian District of the Fourth Hospital of Wuhan. The doctor found that the old man’s blood sugar index was 4 times higher than the normal value.
Mr. Zhou, who was lying on the hospital bed of the Nephrology Department, said that he was worried that he would not be able to finish eating the dumplings. He ate a total of 56 dumplings for dinner the day before and breakfast the next day. “I ate 26 in the evening, and I felt fine; the next morning I ate 30 again.” The old man said that after breakfast, he leaned on the sofa to watch TV, and passed out unexpectedly. The wife on the side immediately dialed 120 to take the old man to the hospital.
The emergency doctor who received the consultation on the same day introduced that in the ambulance, after the doctor took some rescue measures, the patient spit out some glutinous rice balls and regained consciousness. But a blood sugar check was as high as 28 mmol/L, 4 times higher than the normal value, which is a serious excess. Considering that the old man himself suffers from diabetic nephropathy, he was admitted to the Nephrology Internal Medicine Ward for treatment.
“The patient has renal failure due to diabetic nephropathy. He has been on dialysis here for 5 years. I didn’t expect this time to keep his mouth shut and his blood sugar exploded.” Attending physician of the Department of Nephrology, Wuhan Fourth Hospital Dong Liping introduced that the patient’s coma symptoms after eating glutinous rice balls are very likely to be hyperosmolar hyperglycemia after blood sugar rises. After treatment, the condition of the elderly has improved significantly.
Dumplings are high-calorie and high-fat foods, which not only lead to high blood sugar, but also easily induce myocardial infarction. The doctor reminded that eating a large amount of rice dumplings in a short period of time will bring a relatively heavy load to the body, so you must not eat more, let alone eat too much at one time because you are afraid of wasting it.