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ea0021p130 | Diabetes and metabolism | SFEBES2009

Factitious hypoglycaemia in a patient without diabetes

Reddy Monika , Leaper Craig , Drubra Upkar , Abbara Ali , Baoku Yetunde , Darko Daniel , Mehta Sanjeev

A 53-year-old Asian supermarket produce supervisor was noted at work to have slurred speech, sweating, and to feel lightheaded. Paramedics were called and on arrival his capillary blood glucose (CBG) was 1.7 mmol/l. This rose to 2.7 mmol/l after he was given glucose gel followed by complex carbohydrate. He remained lightheaded so was taken to hospital. CBG on admission was 2.0 mmol/l, so samples were taken for plasma glucose, insulin, C-peptide and sulphonylurea screen. Plasma...