Therapeutic target
Normalization of blood glucose
Therapy recommendations
- Administration of glucose or a glucose infusion in a conscious patient.
- Alternatively, administration of glucagon (i.m.; peptide hormone, whose main task is to increase blood glucose levels), if initially a glucose administration is not possible; subsequently necessarily make up for glucose administration.
- In unconscious children and adolescents with hypoglycemia, the immediate administration of 1 mg glucagon (subcutaneously or intramuscularly) is a proven emergency measure.
- See also under “Further therapy“.
