How to Use Glucose Tablets

After glucose has been metabolized, hypoglycemics may experience weakness and dizziness. Diabetics also suffer similar drops in blood sugar levels. Glucose tablets can supply the necessary energy for the body quickly.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Purchase glucose tablets at your local pharmacy. They come in a variety of fruit flavors and can be purchased in tubes of ten or bottles to refill the tubes. Place a container of these tablets in places where they may be needed quickly, such as your purse, car, work desk and medicine cabinet.
2. Take a tablet at the first signs of weakness, tremors, dizziness or disorientation. These are some signs of the early stages of blood sugar drops. Put a tablet in your mouth and chew it.
3. Put some small pieces under your tongue and allow them to remain there for at least 30 seconds. This allows the glucose to enter your bloodstream faster in a sublingual pathway. It is the quickest pathway into the blood, other than a IV.
4. Rest and wait for at least 10 minutes for the blood levels to come up and for the dizziness and weakness to pass.