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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2299861" data-attributes="member: 41816">Hi and welcomehere is a link to a site discussing what is normal for children’s blood glucose.<a href="https://www.livestrong.com/article/28521-glucose-levels-children/" target="_blank">https://www.livestrong.com/article/28521-glucose-levels-children/</a>I could only find sites that use American units, so to translate them into UK units, divide by 18.   So an American reading of 180 is approximately 10 UK units of mmol/lHopefully you find that reassuring, and please remember that the timing of tests is pretty crucial.  Anyone’s blood glucose rises after sugar, fruit juice, bread, rice, potato, etc.  But then in a non diabetic it falls back into the normal range quickly and easily.is your daughter showing signs of puberty/onset of menstruation?My own experience of my periods starting involved a lot of wobbliness, faintness (including visual disturbances) and generally feeling very ‘off’ at certain times of the month.If in doubt, you can contact your doc, but at this stage you risk being labelled as an over-protective mama if you go in brandishing meter readings.  I would suggest you list her symptoms and see what doc says.  Then you can hold her blood glucose query in reserve for if you need it.</blockquote>

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