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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1035872" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>[USER=185561]@MrMaggs[/USER], Ketone testing is something that the majority of diabetics don't do frequently. Ketones are an issue with prolonged high blood glucose, so checking is a back up to confirm what level of issues you have when BG levels are very high, and take appropriate action. As a result, either blood or urine stickls are good enough. In answer to your questions:</p><p></p><p></p><p>1. Roughly how many times a week would you say you check your ketone levels, and how? (test strips/blood reader/breath analyzer) <span style="color: #0000ff">Pretty much never for Diabetes and maybe once every couple of months when undertaking a ketotic diet.</span></p><p></p><p>2. If you don`t check your *blood* ketones, why? Is it because urine strips are good enough, or because of the cost, or because you are already drawing blood for glucose checking and don't want to do this again for ketones? <span style="color: #0000ff">There simply isn't any need to check for ketones in normal day to day life. They only ever need checking when you have bg levels >13mmol/l. And I don't get any kind of prolonged levels like that as I manage them down before ketones would be an issue.</span></p><p></p><p>3. If there was a convenient way to test the same ketones as a blood reader (BHB) through your urine for significantly less cost, would that be of interest? Why/why not? <span style="color: #0000ff">As above, it's such an irregular thing that there's not a great deal of point in doing something new from my perspective. What I have now works well enough. In addition, in the UK, you'd need to sell this idea to the NHS as they provide the testing mechanism free on prescription to T1 diabetics. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 1035872, member: 30007"] [USER=185561]@MrMaggs[/USER], Ketone testing is something that the majority of diabetics don't do frequently. Ketones are an issue with prolonged high blood glucose, so checking is a back up to confirm what level of issues you have when BG levels are very high, and take appropriate action. As a result, either blood or urine stickls are good enough. In answer to your questions: 1. Roughly how many times a week would you say you check your ketone levels, and how? (test strips/blood reader/breath analyzer) [COLOR=#0000ff]Pretty much never for Diabetes and maybe once every couple of months when undertaking a ketotic diet.[/COLOR] 2. If you don`t check your *blood* ketones, why? Is it because urine strips are good enough, or because of the cost, or because you are already drawing blood for glucose checking and don't want to do this again for ketones? [COLOR=#0000ff]There simply isn't any need to check for ketones in normal day to day life. They only ever need checking when you have bg levels >13mmol/l. And I don't get any kind of prolonged levels like that as I manage them down before ketones would be an issue.[/COLOR] 3. If there was a convenient way to test the same ketones as a blood reader (BHB) through your urine for significantly less cost, would that be of interest? Why/why not? [COLOR=#0000ff]As above, it's such an irregular thing that there's not a great deal of point in doing something new from my perspective. What I have now works well enough. In addition, in the UK, you'd need to sell this idea to the NHS as they provide the testing mechanism free on prescription to T1 diabetics. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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