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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kegstore" data-source="post: 122925" data-attributes="member: 16530">AlanReally sorry to hear about your father's stroke. The medical and dietary knowledge of diabetes when in hospital can be sadly lacking until you get fairly high up the food chain, and even then you have to - for example - keep prodding nurses to provide insulin before a meal, not 2 hours after or at the next drug round as is their wont.Identifying the carb content of hospital food is also a challenge, and one I never succeeded in doing, it's the one place you would expect that sort of information to be readily available. Did anyone actually do anything as a result of the 29 bg reading? It would not surprise me if not, you might get a comment "ooh that's a bit high" but no action at all.You're absolutely right to be concerned about the elevated risk associated with strokes and high blood sugars. While your father's in hospital I think it may be down to your family to ensure his bg levels stay reasonably flat and normal.</blockquote>

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