Yellow
blocks are "new"
symptoms which have changed
and been added to and
reduced several times since
1986, sometimes including
and sometimes excluding
other useless signs
(improperly called symptoms)
such as
"confusion."
1 Symptoms,
more properly called
"signs" since the
victim cannot normally
recognize them, of minimal,
if any, use to the diabetic
in dealing with the problem,
and may interfere with
appropriate corrective
responses by the patient or
at the very best simply lack
the immediacy for utility
for warning of sudden
hypoglycemia problems.
2 Symptoms which
would most likely be
useless, arriving after the
risk and probability of
accidents and problems had
already occurred.
*
Source 1986 Physician's Desk
Reference.
** Source March 26, 1997 Eli
Lilly PPI PA6345AMP
It seems
exceedingly strange that the 7
symptom "symptom list"
consists exclusively of useful
symptoms and was more than
adequate from 1922 through
1987-9 (65-7 years of use by
diabetics and medical
professionals) while the
"new" symptom list
inclusive of at least 13-15
"new" symptoms, at
least 10 of which are more signs
than symptoms and none of which
is helpful to the diabetic
without an observer had to be
added as and after questions
were raised about the safety of
human insulin. The 4 new
"signs" are, of
course, of absolutely NO use to
the diabetic ever.
It seems further
strange that "insulin
reaction" suddenly (and
defensively?) became
"hypoglycemia" in this
time-frame as if it were not
being caused by the normal,
healthy reaction to insulin. |