Blood Readings

[tom1179]

Hi

Dose anyone know please what blood sugar's are in the prediabetes rang after eating 2 hours?

Thanks

 

[KennyA]

Hi

Dose anyone know please what blood sugar's are in the prediabetes rang after eating 2 hours?

Thanks

Hi and welcome to the forums.

That's not actually a simple question to answer directly. The usual way for testing around food is to do a baseline test immediately before eating, and then a second test as a follow-up two hours later. What you are looking for is two things. One is that the second result is no more than 2mmol/litre higher than the first: and the second test itself is no higher than 7.8mmol/litre.

This test shows the ability of your system to deal with the impact of the food you ate on your blood glucose. Everyone's blood glucose rises when they eat carbohydrate, usually within half an hour or so, but it can vary. This is normal. Example - the hot milk in a latte can take me from 5.0 to 8.6 within ten minutes and back to 5.0 by one hour.

What should happen is that our body responds to the rise in glucose by releasing insulin which removes the glucose from the blood and transfers it into cells.

After two hours this process should be finished or nearly finished. However, if we have problems dealing with carbohydrate (this is almost a definition of T2 diabetes) there will be a higher blood glucose level than wanted at the two hour mark.

So - if you don't have a baseline test it can be hard to judge what the after-food reading signifies, if anything. Couple of questions, though - What was the reading you got? What did you actually eat? Have you had an HbA1c test, and if so what did that show?

 

[0110]

Hi and welcome to the forums.

That's not actually a simple question to answer directly. The usual way for testing around food is to do a baseline test immediately before eating, and then a second test as a follow-up two hours later. What you are looking for is two things. One is that the second result is no more than 2mmol/litre higher than the first: and the second test itself is no higher than 7.8mmol/litre.

This test shows the ability of your system to deal with the impact of the food you ate on your blood glucose. Everyone's blood glucose rises when they eat carbohydrate, usually within half an hour or so, but it can vary. This is normal. Example - the hot milk in a latte can take me from 5.0 to 8.6 within ten minutes and back to 5.0 by one hour.

What should happen is that our body responds to the rise in glucose by releasing insulin which removes the glucose from the blood and transfers it into cells.

After two hours this process should be finished or nearly finished. However, if we have problems dealing with carbohydrate (this is almost a definition of T2 diabetes) there will be a higher blood glucose level than wanted at the two hour mark.

So - if you don't have a baseline test it can be hard to judge what the after-food reading signifies, if anything. Couple of questions, though - What was the reading you got? What did you actually eat? Have you had an HbA1c test, and if so what did that show?

Kenny - I have a Costa Flat White with semi skimmed (green milk) every day, my sugars do the same, they usually rise so quick and beyond 7.5. Can you suggest any alternatives for me? Maybe I should stick to Black Americano, surly these daily Flat Whites are not doing me any favours.

 

[KennyA]

Kenny - I have a Costa Flat White with semi skimmed (green milk) every day, my sugars do the same, they usually rise so quick and beyond 7.5. Can you suggest any alternatives for me? Maybe I should stick to Black Americano, surly these daily Flat Whites are not doing me any favours.

Personally, I'm OK with a quick rise and an equally quick fall. I don't usually have lattes, but it was cold that day. Espresso or macchiato works fine at getting caffeine into me, and so does a cortado. The cortado might work for you, less milk and the same amount of coffee.

 

[ajbod]

If i had a quick rise, and quick fall, that would not bother me in the slightest. That is what a non diabetic would see. That is a sign of your system working properly AT THAT MOMENT.