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<blockquote data-quote="Lally123" data-source="post: 1882330" data-attributes="member: 379571"><p>[USER=419366]@eeyores61[/USER], what meds is your dad taking? My dad was the same age 88 and took 40mg gliclazide a day, blood sugars were always around 10 I think. He lived with me and one day a few months ago he had the most horrendous hypo where I had to call an ambulance who took over 2 hrs to get his blood sugar up above 5. He never really seemed to recover fully and died 3 weeks later, he wasn't ill and I'm not sure whether the hypo was a symptom of his body giving up or the cause of it. All I would say is that a blood sugar of 10-12 in someone of 88, particularly if he's on meds like gliclazide, is far safer than trying to achieve tight control. If he spikes up to 20 after a meal but is back to 10-12 after a couple of hours then that may be reasonable. Elderly people's systems react much slower than ours, their kidney function deteriorates which means they don't clear the meds they take from their bodies as effectively and are more at risk of accumulation. I think it depends on how he feels, if he feels unwell at those levels then things may need to tighten up, but if he's fine I personally would leave him be.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lally123, post: 1882330, member: 379571"] [USER=419366]@eeyores61[/USER], what meds is your dad taking? My dad was the same age 88 and took 40mg gliclazide a day, blood sugars were always around 10 I think. He lived with me and one day a few months ago he had the most horrendous hypo where I had to call an ambulance who took over 2 hrs to get his blood sugar up above 5. He never really seemed to recover fully and died 3 weeks later, he wasn't ill and I'm not sure whether the hypo was a symptom of his body giving up or the cause of it. All I would say is that a blood sugar of 10-12 in someone of 88, particularly if he's on meds like gliclazide, is far safer than trying to achieve tight control. If he spikes up to 20 after a meal but is back to 10-12 after a couple of hours then that may be reasonable. Elderly people's systems react much slower than ours, their kidney function deteriorates which means they don't clear the meds they take from their bodies as effectively and are more at risk of accumulation. I think it depends on how he feels, if he feels unwell at those levels then things may need to tighten up, but if he's fine I personally would leave him be. [/QUOTE]
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