Causes for Low Blood Sugar (Hypoglycemia)

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Hypoglycemia is the result of excess insulin in the blood, which causes excessively low blood sugar levels.
Hypoglycemia results when your body's glucose is used up too rapidly, when glucose is released into the bloodstream more slowly than is needed by your body
Delaying or skipping a meal
Eating too little food at a meal
Getting more exercise than usual
Hypoglycemia most often occurs in people who are taking insulin or oral hypoglycemic drugs.
Use of medications like beta-blockers, pentamidine and Bacterium.
Use of alcohol may causes low blood sugar.
Severe infection.
Adrenal insufficiency may lead to the condition of low blood sugar.
Low blood sugar also may occur in people with cancer, which often causes loss of appetite.
Hormonal imbalances may also cause hypoglycemia. Deficiency of growth hormone causes hypoglycemia, especially in young infants and children.
Kidney failure causes low blood sugar . Insulin circulates for a longer period of time and is cleared slowly when kidney function is poor.
Insulin-producing tumors of the pancreas called insulinomas cause low blood sugar by producing high amounts of insulin. Certain tumors of the liver called hepatoma are also cause low blood sugar.