2.3 2 Diabetic Emergency Answers
Question: Explain the role that exercise plays in maintaining healthy blood sugar levels.
Answer: While exercising the sugar in your cells decrease to maintain healthy blood sugar.
Question: Describe what happened to the model cell that was submerged in a low glucose solution for 20 minutes. Explain why this occurs.
Answer: The cells grow bigger because of osmosis to create a hypoglysimic solution.
Question: Explain why hospitals use saline solutions to hydrate patients instead of distilled water
Answer: Saline solution helps to keep blood sugar levels stable. distilled H2O would make the cells expand.
Question: How does preventing a diabetic emergency affect the day to day life of a diabetic? What special considerations do they have to make as they go about their day
Answer: They carry a juice box in case their blood sugar levels become low. They need to know what happens in their body.
Question: Explain how having an insulin pump may decrease the chance of a diabetic having a diabetic emergency.
Answer: It gives off the right amount of insulin to maintain healthy levels of glucose.