What is ketotic hypoglycaemia? - Anonymous Question

[Anonymous Question]

Anonymous question submitted:

Ketotic hypoglycaemia in young children: I am looking for a medically sound help leaflet on ketotic hypoglycaemia for a non medical person (for me). My daughter, who is 6, is being tested for this.

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[Indy51]

Wikipedia has a very comprehensive entry on the subject here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketotic_hypoglycemia

Sorry, I have no personal experience of the issue. I hope your daughter gets an answer soon.

All the best,

 

[phoenix]

http://www.riversideonline.com/health_r ... N00302.cfm

http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Sit ... 128P1.html

They should be medically sound but neither go into much detail.
As it is from the US the blood glucose levels mentioned in the second article are in mg/dl rather than those used in the UK., you need to divide by 18 (70-150mg/dl mentioned in the article is the same as 3.8mml/l - 8.3 mml/l )