What would be the effects of a non-diabetic taking insulin?
September 30th, 2008 by admin
I understand that obviously this wouldn’t be good, but I was wondering what would be the exact effects of someone who doesn’t have diabetes taking the insulin injection?
By the way, I’m writing a book that this question is relevant to – I’m not planning on doing anything as silly as that myself.
The recipients blood sugar would drop like a stone resulting in hypoglycaemia, possibly coma and even death depending on the amount given.I remember years ago in murder mysteries it was used as a method of murder because insulin is a naturally occurring substance and its presence in the body would go unnoticed.These days though with the advances in modern science it can be easily detected.
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September 20th, 2008 at 2:45 am
The person would get low blood sugar — hypoglycemia. Look for symptoms below:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglycemia#Signs_and_symptoms
September 20th, 2008 at 4:09 am
The recipients blood sugar would drop like a stone resulting in hypoglycaemia, possibly coma and even death depending on the amount given.I remember years ago in murder mysteries it was used as a method of murder because insulin is a naturally occurring substance and its presence in the body would go unnoticed.These days though with the advances in modern science it can be easily detected.
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September 20th, 2008 at 7:17 am
small dose could be counteracted by taking a sweet drink, large dose coma which if left untreated (Iv dextrose) death.
symptoms of taking too much insulin include headaches, irregular and increased heartbeat, sweating, tremor, nausea, anxiety and increased hunger. Very very unpleasant.
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