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Sounders' Freddie Ljungberg Has Low Blood Sugar
Doctors believe hypoglycemia explains Ljungberg's migraines and memory loss.
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Aug 24, 2009 3:39:50 PM
Seattle Sounders FC designated player Freddie Ljungberg has been diagnosed with hypoglycemia. The Swede suffered memory loss last week and hypoglycemia, essentially low blood sugar, is the apparent cause.
"I found out why I get migraine-like symptoms. I'm hypoglycemic," Ljungberg said to the Seattle Times. "I can't eat too much sugar.
"What happened Friday was that we were traveling, and in Europe when we travel, we have our own chef at training so we eat all the time," Ljungberg said. "When you're hypoglycemic you need to eat all the time, good food. So what we did was I just went to the airport and got some bagels or something, not really helping me. So my body crashed."
The former Arsenal man has always struggled with migraine-like symptoms, but they have been more frequent since joining the Sounders. So it was the memory loss that scared Ljungberg.
"It's a major relief," he said. "You can imagine yourself sitting in a hotel room and all of a sudden you don't know the numbers or the names on your phone or what anyone's name is. Of course I was scared. You think maybe like the worst thing, that there's a tumor in your head or something. But we did the MRIs and everything was clear. It's a big relief and now we can fix it."
The apparent cure is to eat carbohydrates with great frequency.
"It takes the availability of food items, it also takes the responsibility to bring in the food items," Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid said to the same source, "but I think we can manage it that way."
Ljungberg could suit up for Seattle against the Houston Dynamo later today.
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"I found out why I get migraine-like symptoms. I'm hypoglycemic," Ljungberg said to the Seattle Times. "I can't eat too much sugar.
"What happened Friday was that we were traveling, and in Europe when we travel, we have our own chef at training so we eat all the time," Ljungberg said. "When you're hypoglycemic you need to eat all the time, good food. So what we did was I just went to the airport and got some bagels or something, not really helping me. So my body crashed."
The former Arsenal man has always struggled with migraine-like symptoms, but they have been more frequent since joining the Sounders. So it was the memory loss that scared Ljungberg.
"It's a major relief," he said. "You can imagine yourself sitting in a hotel room and all of a sudden you don't know the numbers or the names on your phone or what anyone's name is. Of course I was scared. You think maybe like the worst thing, that there's a tumor in your head or something. But we did the MRIs and everything was clear. It's a big relief and now we can fix it."
The apparent cure is to eat carbohydrates with great frequency.
"It takes the availability of food items, it also takes the responsibility to bring in the food items," Sounders head coach Sigi Schmid said to the same source, "but I think we can manage it that way."
Ljungberg could suit up for Seattle against the Houston Dynamo later today.
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