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Originally Posted by southblues
This is a little bit off the wall, but are you using any sugar free gum or other stuff with artificial sweetners in it?
Xylitol is a sugar substitute that is in a lot of gums and other stuff. It is supposed to be safe in humans; however, in dogs, it fools the pancreas into thinking that they actually ate a big bunch of sugar. As a result, the dog puts out a bunch of insulin. The dog's blood sugar drops so low that he dies.
I don't use artificial sweetners because if they can kill dogs, I don't think that they are safe for humans. I knew a person that had severe low blood sugar problems. She constantly chewed sugarless gum. She quit and it got better.
This is probably not your problem, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
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Good thought! Fortunately I've been steering clear of all processed food and sweeteners since I had the seizure in mid Dec.
However, I really am in quite a quandry over my diet. I'm going to arrange to see a nutritionist in the coming days, but my goodness I just don't know what I'm meant to eat.
I have been following the Paleo diet but having approx 25g carb every three days, which was working pretty good, except I felt very tired all the time (much more so than usual) and found I had even less muscle capacity.
However, I understand AOS is
caused by low carb diet...so now I tried to reintroduce it and wallop! Nasty great agitated, slurry mess!
I'm getting a fasting blood test on Monday to see what the score is but I really hope I can work something out soon. At the moment my option is:
- no carb and more weak and tired (preferable)
- or carb and majorly worsened symptoms with risk of another seizure, which, since trying to re-introduce carbs, has felt almost imminent.
I know which one I'm choosing
