My brother's glucose levels kept dropping, he had bronchitis.

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His sugar was 78 one morning, he ate breakfast and then went to work. Before he even got to work, his level dropped to 26. The ambulance crew got his sugar to 44 before they moved him. We were at the emergency room all that day. I've been staying over to his place off and on as well as other people monitoring him. Years ago, my sugar dropped before I had even symptoms of gastro-intestinal virus. 30 was the count they said. I had eaten most of the food out of our refrigerator, went to work, was only without food for an hour. I was so hot, but it was a hot day. So I went to put cool water on my face, I dropped to my knees, all the other times that made me feel better. I had to crawl out of the bathroom. I've also had my sugar go up when ill. Over 200 when I had the flu and basically felt like I couldn't move. Does anyone else out there have these wicked drops and spikes when ill? My sugar comes out normal on all tests the rest of the time. My brother is insulin dependent because his pancreas makes almost no insulin. He started taking the shots at 28 years of age. We don't know of anyone else that illness hits this hard. Flu shots are useless for me, I still get just as sick. Does anyone else have this problem or know of anyone else who does? Other than lots of glucose and call an ambulance, can anything else be done for the low glucose drops? Would forcing myself to get up and move around help the glucose spiking up? Thanks and take care.