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Congenital Hyperinsulinism

How is it treated?

Treatment of CH in the short term is by immediate correction of the hypoglycaemia by intravenous glucose to prevent further hypoglycaemia and brain damage. In the longer term other medications are used. A pancreatectomy (surgical intervention to remove a large or small part of the pancreas) has to be carried out where medication does not maintain proper regulation of the production of insulin.

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Medical text written December 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved December 2005 by Dr K Hussain, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

 

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