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Re: Ketones DKA is extremely rare in T2 diabetics, although of course there is the possibility of a misdiagnosis.

That's not what I meant at all - it's a fact that elderly people are more frail and less able to tolerate side effects of medication, and thus an intervention that may have a net benefit for younger people may not be appropriate for the elderly. For example, look at aspirin: Aspirin increases...

It's not that simple - the older you get, the less you stand to benefit from interventions and the more problematic side effects become simply because elderly people are generally more frail, so eventually you will reach a point where risk of the intervention exceeds the benefits (e.g...

Re: Need some advice :) Well, since you are worried because your husband is doing fine and coping well with diabetes I'd suggest not worrying. I'm sorry, but I really don't understand your post. Some people have an easier time than others with diabetes, and some people have access to better...

5.6%; unfortunately I got to see a different consultant who thinks fasting BG of 7+ is fine so that appointment was a bit of a waste of time.

I don't think that wiping the injection site with alcohol wipes before each injection - a process the product crucially relies on - is recommended any more; I've certainly never been told to do this by my consultant and thus would not be able to use the product at all.

Only in the absence of classical symptoms, otherwise one abnormal BG result is sufficient. An HbA1c is not a fasting blood glucose test. You don't have to fast for HbA1c test so the food you would not expect food you had to cause a false positive. The diagnostic cut-off for HbA1c (the test you...

Statistical analysis of studies like the DCCT. Whilst pharmaceutical companies will obviously try to demonstrate that the widest possible demographic benefit from their drugs the fact remains that the drug has been shown to help people like you if it is to be prescribed to you. That's a rather...

So does the NHS: Staff should ask if you are feeling ill before administering the vaccine. Apparently a new treatment ( Fluenz) is more effective in children and is thus recommended:

HbA1c used to be measured in DCCT units and given perents, e.g. 9.3%. Recently, this was changed and all BG are now to be reported in IFCC units, e.g. 71 mmol/mol. These are equivalent units The tool on diabetes.co.uk "helpfully" lists another figure which is the average blood glucose level...

My opinion is that the artificial pancreas cannot become a viable alternative (I.e. offering better control than your average diabetic can achieve with MDI or pumps and education like DAFNE, possibly assisted by various "smart" meters) unless the calculations account for meals; my impression was...

Are you saying that T1 diabetes can be fixed by diet? Then why do we bother with this research at all? However, that is the crux of the matter - this artificial pancreas only uses BG as input, which means that it can never work as well as a healthy person (who will release insulin in response...

How many sick and vulnerable people do you meet vs a hospital receptionist, nurse or doctor? How many other patients does a hospital patient interact with? How many patients does a receptionist, nurse or doctor interact with? But your are right, of course - reluctance to have vaccines leads...

You know, this kind of thing is exactly why I had to take a break from this site in site but anyway... I'm surprised you never heard of Dreamfields Pasta (which, admittedly has a somewhat dodgy reputation). You might also want to look into your chemophobia. As for the original question - maybe...

For the record, if you actually meant to say blood count rather than the much more like blood glucose/blood sugar then you need to speak to your doctor. In any case, if your blood sugar is always too low (i.e. hypo) in the morning then you should consider changing your insulin dose or possibly...

You have normal fasting BG, and normal postprandial BG levels. That might have been an HbA1c test which is good for detecting diabetes but not good for excluding it (that is to say, reading >6.5% indicates diabetes but <6.5% does not necessarily mean you are healthy). Plus, if it is something...

Dunno - have breakfast at 7:00, test BG at 9:00, eat lunch at 13:00, test again at 15:00. If BG is high after a meal then I use a correction dose and test again later. Obviously one would include that in the calculation, duh. If you have good control then you know that your BG has to be 7...

I'd try to avoid that situation entirely - test after eating, and don't wait until the next meal which is hours away to correct a high. Yes, I know DAFNE is big on testing before meals rather than testing after meals but I disagree - if post-meal BG is fine then so will be the BG before the...

One can of red bill has 80mg of caffeine whilst a cup of coffee contains 95mg... Are you sure you are worrying about the right thing? Note that coffee is even cheaper than energy drinks.

Well, no. Sliding scale continuously adjusts insulin infusion rates based on BG which is measured every hour; if you eat a lot of carbs (note that it's frequently used alongside glucose IV) then BG goes up, is detected within an hour and the insulin infusion rate is adjusted to bring it back...