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I keep having glucose drops 2 hrs after eating. ranges in the 60sand have it drop into 50s. twice in the past year, 47. what can cause that?
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Hypoglycemia: This is know as post-prandial hypoglycemia. In certain individuals it increases their risk on the long run for diabetes. Suggestions to help include eating complex carbohydrates instead of refined sugars and seeing a PCP for Diabetes testing and ruling out other similar conditions
Answered 5/13/2014
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