严重而长期的低血糖发作可引起广泛的神经系统病变。其临床表现多种多样且具暗示性,常可戏剧性地自动消失,往往给临床诊断造成一定的困难,常被误诊为癔病、癫痫、精神病、麻痹性痴呆、脑瘤及脑炎等。这些症状经过适当治疗后大多能迅速好转或消失,但在新生儿期长时间的低血糖则可引起永久性神经损害。因此,能正确认识本病,早期作出诊断,甚为重要。病因分类引起低血糖的病因甚多,Marks(1972)统计100种以上的疾患可引起低血糖。详见右表。 Severe and long-term hypoglycemic episodes can cause a wide range of neurological disorders. The clinical manifestations of a variety of and suggestive, often dramatic disappear, often to clinical diagnosis caused some difficulties, often misdiagnosed as hysteria, epilepsy, mental illness, paralytic dementia, brain tumors and encephalitis. Most of these symptoms can be quickly improved or disappeared after proper treatment, but long-term hypoglycemia in the neonatal period can cause permanent nerve damage. Therefore, to correctly understand the disease, early diagnosis, is very important. Causes of hypoglycemia are many causes of etiology, Marks (1972) statistics of more than 100 kinds of disorders can cause hypoglycemia. See the table on the right.