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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1567652" data-attributes="member: 32394">What is it you are fighting to get your child diagnosed with [USER=393260]@Tanithb[/USER] ?Keytotic hypoglycaemia is kind of the opposite of diabetes. Diabetes is a condition of high blood sugar, hypoglycaemia (obviously) is low blood sugar.With random blood sugars (like your daughter is being tested with) the level to cause concern about diabetes is anything over 11.1. Your daughter appears to have had only one result over 11.1, you mention one result at 17 - did you wash her hands and test her again to check this reading was correct? Diabetes isn't diagnosed on one random blood sugar over 11.1 if there aren't any symptoms of diabetes. Does your daughter have diabetic symptoms?Has your daughter had any further tests to investigate diabetes? Has she had a hba1c test?It's perfectly normal to get rises after eating, a non diabetic person will spike into double figures occasionally after eating something particularly high carb. If your daughter is having hypos caused by keytotic hypoglycaemia her body's response to the hypo will be to produce adrenaline, which causes the hypo symptoms and also makes you insulin resistant, her body will also stop producing insulin when hypo because it doesn't want to be hypo anymore so it's not really a shock, or necessarily indicative of diabetes, that she goes high in the aftermath of a severe hypo (and 1.3 is a severe hypo).She obviously has some disordered blood sugar, but this could be more related to the hypoglycaemia than any putative diabetes. If she doesn't have symptoms and you are under the care of an endocrinologist why not just wait to discuss with the specialist</blockquote>

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