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confused about blood sugar

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jgates

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hello, my daughter (age 6) has been complaining about dizziness and headaches. today I randomly decided to take her blood sugar levels (she is not diabetic). it read 12.8. after she ate it went to 6.7 then at an emergency doctor's appointment it read 5.5 and no traces of ketones in her urine. she is scheduled for a blood test at the hospital soon to determine if she is type one or not at all. has anyone had a reading that high and wrong? not sure if the machine is wrong or not.
 
jgates said:
hello, my daughter (age 6) has been complaining about dizziness and headaches. today I randomly decided to take her blood sugar levels (she is not diabetic). it read 12.8. after she ate it went to 6.7 then at an emergency doctor's appointment it read 5.5 and no traces of ketones in her urine. she is scheduled for a blood test at the hospital soon to determine if she is type one or not at all. has anyone had a reading that high and wrong? not sure if the machine is wrong or not.
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Hi,

Welcome to the forum.

Where her hands clean/washed after the possibility of handling sugary food or a treat on the "12.8?"
How long has the meter been hanging about before it was used. More importantly, are the test strips in date??

It's good you are taking her for tests..
 
hello, her hands were clean and the test strips are in date. we hadn't used the meter in a while but I put new batteries in it before doing the test. could it just be a false reading do you think? or maybe the start of something?

kind regards
jgates
 
jgates said:
hello, her hands were clean and the test strips are in date. we hadn't used the meter in a while but I put new batteries in it before doing the test. could it just be a false reading do you think? or maybe the start of something?

kind regards
jgates
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It's a tough call.. A few random tests. Don't always call it out. (We realy can't diagnose on the forum.)
The lack of keytones doesn't suggest to me prolonged high BGs.? More a spike?
Has your child expressed any other symptoms?
 
she has said she is thirsty at school but I haven't noticed it at home. I'm going to ask teachers to keep an eye on it. also haven't noticed more urination. yeah, I guess only a blood test will tell. just very confused by it all. would a spike mean she is developing it or do people without type 1 also get spikes but just don't know it? sorry, I'm very uneducated about diabetes. please don't take offense to anything I say. thanks for replying.
 
As a T1 mother of two children (diagnosed by my own mother when I became unusually thirsty as a child), I have always been a little paranoid about the possibility that my children might develop T1. However, I don't think traumatising your non diabetic children with frequent blood tests is a very good idea, so I controlled my fears by keeping a tub of urine testing strips and testing their urine instead of their bloods. As sugar passes out into urine once a blood sugar reaches 10, I reckoned that the urine would show up positive before they got sick enough to be in danger, and I could take them to the GP (or do my own blood tests).
 
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