What is the difference in High Blood Sugar & Low Blood Sugar?

If a child eats a lot of sugar snacks or candy and then spaces out, would she have high or low blood sugar? Or something else?

It is like a person who can't hold their liquor...but she can't hold her sugar. I can tell when school or grandparents give her sugar. Her entire personality changes and she is unable to function. I am thinking it might be Absent Seizures but I also wonder if they are brought on by sugar.

I have been to my doctor and he is no help at all! He just says, "Well, Don't give her sugar" and wont even test her for anything. Unless I go in knowing what I am talking about and have more info, I don't think I will ever get anywhere or be able to get the tests she needs =(

My duaghter does not become hyper when eating candy. It is the total opposite. She becomes very spaced out and stares. She also says she sees red or green spots flying around the room at night. She cannot follow simple instructions without crying and become easily frustrated. It might not even be a diabetic problem but I assumed if it had to do with sugar intake (which it seem to) then it would be. Any other suggestions to what might be causing this?

High Blood Sugar is diabetes. A person with diabetes has a high glucose level. Glucose rises when a person eats something that converts to glucose. People with diabetes generally should avoid carbohydrates, breads and starches.

A person with low blood sugar is hypoglycemic and they need to eat to maintain their glucose levels.

If your doctor will not hear your concerns, you need to find another doctor.

Most children cannot tolerate a lot of sugar. Many will become hyperactive and start bouncing off the walls. There is really no nutrition in sugar...it's just something we like.

This is NOT what is called high or low
blood sugar. That terminology means
the amount of glucose in the blood,
which is also a form of sugar. But any
healthy person's pancreas will inject
insulin into the blood to level out the
amount of glucose. It's when the pancreas CANNOT produce enough
insulin to normalize the glucose--that
we get trouble.

It is best for a child's health to keep
most sugars away from a child. They
will get enough in fruits, puddings,
cakes, etc.

Hyperglycemia is the technical term for high blood glucose (sugar). High blood glucose happens when the body has too little, or not enough, insulin or when the body can't use insulin properly.

Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar. It occurs when the level of sugar, or glucose, in the blood drops too low to fuel the body.

the amount of oxygen atom attached to hemoglobin is what gives the results of high or low sugar readings - the cause is too much or too little insulin (or inferior insulin so the body makes more). Best control is small meals of moderate amounts of carbs and fast sugar foods (candy). Having a bland diet and exercises is a good first step - moderating blood readings is the next step & seeing an endocronolgist is the third step.

you need to tell the doctor to have a hemoglobin A 1c (hga1c)
and a glucose tolerence test. it sounds to me that your daughter may be a diabetic which is high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) you can also go and by a glucometer from walmart just cheap one will work if it is higher than 200 in the morning before she eats or 2hrs after any other meal then she has diabetes normal blood sugar is 70-200 i hope this helps you. You may want to look for another doc. sounds like the one you have dosent know what he is doing or just doesnt care