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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cugila" data-source="post: 138227" data-attributes="member: 15325">Blood sugar is the same. How it is measured in different parts of the World is different. You are correct in your analogy about miles/kilometres, centigrade/fahrenheit etc. Here in the UK we use the measure of mmol/l.   In other parts of the World it is measured in mg/dl. So, it has to be converted from one to the other.  Do you know the conversion factor ? If your Doctor is used to working in mg/dl then it makes sense to have a meter that reads in that measurement, not a UK measure. As Sue stated most of the meters supplied in the UK use mmol/l, is that the measurement used where you are ?  If so then the meter would be useful, providing you can get the test strips as well.  However, if you are happy to do the conversion every time you use the meter than any meter will suffice. You will have to check the specification to see what measure it uses.A blood sugar testing meter will be of use to ANY Diabetic. Ken</blockquote>

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