Insulin?

[End_it_all]

Does anyone know what would happen if a non diabetic injected insulin? I heard that it causes cardiac arrest and also can't be detected.

 

[Praestat_Mori]

Insulin regulated the blood sugar level. If there's an imbalance it will also affect a non-diabetic person.

This isn't a medical advice.

 

[chester]

From what I know non-diabetics have a way of compensating for high insulin levels. I guess a high enough dose would kill you anyway, don't ask me how high though. And you're right, insulin overdose is hard to detect during an autopsy, but vials and syringes are easy to detect at the scene unless someone cleans up after you.

 

[Sail_to_Infinity]

The brain needs continuous oxygen + sugar, each neuron contains mitochondrias that burn sugar in the presence of O2, producing energy to sustain cell life. After injecting a high dose of insulin without eating anything, blood sugar is immediately bound and injected into all the cells in the body, most obviously into the muscles which have the largest capacity. After a very short time, there is almost no sugar in the blood for the brain or coronary vessels of the heart, only oxygen. Severe overdose - insulin coma and further unpredictable consequences, vegetative state as after cerebral hypoxia, myocardial infarction, including death of course.

 

[hjon]

The brain needs continuous oxygen + sugar, each neuron contains mitochondrias that burn sugar in the presence of O2, producing energy to sustain cell life. After injecting a high dose of insulin without eating anything, blood sugar is immediately bound and injected into all the cells in the body, most obviously into the muscles which have the largest capacity. After a very short time, there is almost no sugar in the blood for the brain or coronary vessels of the heart, only oxygen. Severe overdose - insulin coma and further unpredictable consequences, vegetative state as after cerebral hypoxia, myocardial infarction, including death of course.

Does this principle cross over for a diabetic person overdosing with insulin?

 

[maniac116]

I wouldn't do it!!!
My mom did & was found comatose. She came out of the coma but could never walk again.
She was mentally impaired & had trouble talking. She was left with organs damaged & died of congestive heart failure.

 

[El_Jefe]

How long was the gap if you don't mind me asking