Hyperglycemia | Pediatric Diabetes | Patient Education | UC Davis Children's Hospital

Symptoms of hyperglycemia

If your blood glucose is high, you may feel some of the symptoms of hyperglycemia:

• Need to urinate often
• Dry skin
• Hungry
• Blurry vision
• Sleepy
• Slow healing injury or infection
• Very thirsty

Common causes of high blood glucose

• Too much carbohydrate/sugar
• Too little insulin
• Illness/stress

Treating high blood glucose

1. Test blood glucose.
2. If it has been more than 3 hours since the last insulin injection, give insulin according to your correction scale.
3. If blood sugar is over 350 mg/dL 3 hours after giving correction dose, or the child is sick or vomiting, test urine for ketones.