A Red Sox coach had a diabetes-related seizure on the field yesterday.
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BOSTON -- Boston Red Sox third base coach Mike Cubbage had a diabetic seizure and collapsed on the field during Saturday night's home opener against the Baltimore Orioles. He was expected to make a full recovery.
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Baltimore starting pitcher Jason Johnson is also diabetic. The Orioles training staff -- in the third base dugout and the first to see what was going on -- went out to help Cubbage and put some sugar in his mouth.
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The Red Sox confirmed Cubbage had a diabetic seizure due to too much insulin, and not enough sugar, in his blood. He was given intravenous glucose and he responded immediately, Morgan said.
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(from espn.com)
My question is, how did they know that he was suffering from not enough sugar, and not too much? I thought I'd been told that you don't necessarily know which it is, and that you could be doing harm from giving someone sugar in this sort of situation.
