10 Hyperglycemia Symptoms
Reviewed: Dr. Mera
Symptom #8: Stupor
Stupor describes the lack of mental function or it can refer to lower consciousness. This means that the afflicted individual does not respond to any cues besides base stimuli such as pain. Stupor can be observed in conditions such as severe hypothermia, infectious diseases, complicated toxic states, mental illness, vascular illness, epilepsy, shock, trauma, neoplasms, and more.
Patients in this state can appear to be sleepy most of the time. Severe cases also lead to patients being motionless, mute, appetite loss, and weight loss.
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