Blood sugar levels,   What’s normal?
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70 -100 are normal fasting blood sugar levels.  They can go a little higher after eating.\n\nYour reading was normal.
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Need to take several blood tests for blood sugar. Start with a fasting one (12 hr fasting). Best to consult a doctor if in doubt
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You'll get various opinions from different individuals, frankly...  You might check the American Diabetes Association for their guidelines--they are what most of us try to run by.\n\nOn the whole, ideally your fasting sugar should be 110 or less, and I like to see people in the 80-100 range most of the time.  I'm willing to settle for anything less than 125, though.  As for the postprandial sugars, I focus on the 2-hours-after-eating (or 2 hour postprandial) sugars.  Prefer to see them below 140 mg/dl; I'll tolerate them less than 160.\n\nIncreasingly, however, I tend to focus on the Hemoglobin A1c value.  That's a measure of the proportion (expressed as a percentage) of the hemoglobin that is tagged with a glucose molecule at a particular site (the 1c site on Hemoglobin A.  DUH!)  Dr. RIchard Guthrie, a decade or two ago, showed that the Hemoglobin A1c correlated very much better with the rapidity of the diabetic damage being caused than anything reasonable you could do with individual sugar readings, or with aggregate calculations of the readings over a couple of months time.\n\nDO NOT take this to indicate that the fasting and postprandial sugars are not of use; they certainly are, but they are of greatest use in recognizing the presence of complicating illnesses (on the whole, you can look at the sugars of a diabetic and use them to get a handle on the presence of an infectious process just like you can use the body temperature), and the presence of patterns in the sugars to guide in the alteration of long vs. short acting insulins to control the sugar.\n\nOK, so I'm longwinded.  I knew that.  Hope this gives you some useful insight!
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This depends on when you are testing your blood glucose in relation to your meal schedule. \n\nIf you are diabetic and you have just eaten a substantial meal, check 2 hours after you finish. At this point in time, your sugar should be in the 140-180 range, which is OK for after a meal. \n\nIf you are fasting (meaning that you haven't eaten in at least 8-12 hours), you should obviously be around 100-110. You should also be around this level before meals. \n\nAnything over 250 if a dangerous level and requires medical attention. Anything over 300 definitely deserves a trip to the ER. Of course, if you feel bad or have symptoms of a really high level (dizzy, dry mouth, shaky, etc.) then call your doctor. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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By exercise & diet. If you can not control the blood sugar in normal range, it means that you are consuming sugar and carbohydrates in excess knowingly or unknowingly. \nNormal range-Fasting blood sugar-126 mg/dL.(mmol.7/L)\nBlood sugar 2 hours after taking food-Postprandial-180 mg/dL.(mmol.10/L). In order to reduce blood sugar level, you have to consume less quantity of food more times in a day. Some foods have to be avoided(sweets & oily foods), some restricted(Ripe fruits-mango/banana etc) , and some consumed in plenty (Leafy vegetables).\nABCs for good Diabetes Care.\n(1).Get your Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) test done at least twice a year. (Target: Below 7).\n(2).Albuminuria. Get your urine micro-albumin test done atleast twice a year. (Target: Below 30).\n(3).Aspirin Check with your doctor if you need to take aspirin daily.\n(4).Blood pressure. Get your blood pressure checked every visit. (Target: Below 130/80 mm Hg)\n(5).Cholesterol Get your LDL (bad cholesterol) levels checked at least once a year. (Target: Below 100 mg/dL). Triglycerides. (Target: Less than 150 mg/dL) Serum Cholesterol (Target: Less than 200 mg/dL) HDL (god cholesterol) (Target: More than 50 mg/dL)\n(6).Diabetes Education. Know about diabetes & get updated regularly.\n(7).Eye exam. Get your eyes examined regularly, get checked at least nce a year. \n(8).Teeth. Get your teeth examined by a Dentist and get tartar (plaque) removed once in a year. \n(9).Foot care. Check your feet daily . Request your doctor to check them every visit. Get an extensive foot examination done once in a year.\n(10).Glucose (Sugar) test. Control  your blood glucose & do self-monitoring as & when required. (Target: Fasting blood sugar 60-100 mg/dL; Postprandial blood sugar 2 hours after food-Less than 180 mg/dL)\n(11).Health life style. Exercise regularly & stay healthy.\n(12).Identify special medical needs. Voice your health concerns to your doctor . Follow your doctor’s advice.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Glucose test.
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Actually you can check their blood glucose with a standard blood glucose monitor. You can buy one at Wal-Mart. Their bloodsugar should be exactly the same as a human's 80-120 mg/dl. As for cholesterol, you will need a veterinarian to do that.
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What does the test result mean?\nHigh levels of glucose most frequently indicate diabetes, but many other diseases and conditions can also cause elevated glucose. The following information summarizes the meaning of the test results. These are based on the clinical practice recommendations of the American Diabetes Association.\n\nFasting Blood Glucose\nFrom 70 to 99 mg/dL (3.9 to 5.5 mmol/L) Normal glucose tolerance\nFrom 100 to 125 mg/dL (5.6 to 6.9 mmol/L) Impaired fasting glucose (pre-diabetes)\n126 mg/dL (7.0 mmol/L) and above on more than one testing occasion Diabetes\n\nOral Glucose Tolerance Test (OGTT)\n[except pregnancy]\n(2 hours after a 75-gram glucose drink)\nLess than 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) Normal glucose tolerance\nFrom 140 to 200 mg/dL (7.8 to 11.1 mmol/L) Impaired glucose tolerance (pre-diabetes)\nOver 200 mg/dL (11.1 mmol/L) on more than one testing occasion Diabetes\n\nGestational Diabetes Screening: Glucose Challenge Test\n(1 hour after a 50-gram glucose drink)\nLess than 140* mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) Normal glucose tolerance\n140* mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) and over Abnormal, needs OGTT (see below)\n* Some use a cutoff of >130 mg/dL (7.2 mmol/L) because that identifies 90% of women with gestational diabetes, compared to 80% identified using the threshold of >140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L).\n\n\nGestational Diabetes Diagnostic: OGTT\n(100-gram glucose drink)\nFasting* 95 mg/dL (5.3 mmol/L)\n1 hour after glucose load* 180 mg/dL (10.0 mmol/L)\n2 hours after glucose load* 155 mg/dL (8.6 mmol/L)\n3 hours after glucose load* ** 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L)\n* If two or more values are above the criteria, gestational diabetes is diagnosed.\n** A 75-gram glucose load may be used, although this method is not as well validated as the 100-gram OGTT; the 3-hour sample is not drawn if 75 grams is used.\n\nSome of the other diseases and conditions that can result in elevated glucose levels include:\n\n    * Acromegaly\n    * Acute stress (response to trauma, heart attack, and stroke for instance)\n    * Chronic renal failure\n    * Cushing syndrome\n    * Drugs, including: corticosteroids, tricyclic antidepressants, diuretics, epinephrine, estrogens (birth control pills and hormone replacement), lithium, phenytoin (Dilantin), salicylates,\n    * Excessive food intake\n    * Hyperthyroidism\n    * Pancreatic cancer\n    * Pancreatitis \n\nLow to non-detectible urine glucose results are considered normal. Anything that raises blood glucose levels also has the potential to elevate urine glucose levels. Increased urine glucose levels may be seen with medications, such as estrogens and chloral hydrate, and with some forms of renal disease.\n\nModerately increased levels may be seen with pre-diabetes. This condition, if left un-addressed, often leads to type 2 diabetes.\n\nLow glucose levels (hypoglycemia) are also seen with:\n\n    * Adrenal insufficiency\n    * Drinking alcohol\n    * Drugs, such as acetaminophen and anabolic steroids\n    * Extensive liver disease\n    * Hypopituitarism\n    * Hypothyroidism\n    * Insulin overdose\n    * Insulinomas (insulin-producing pancreatic tumors)\n    * Starvation \n\n\n\n\nIs there anything else I should know?\nHypoglycemia is characterized by a drop in blood glucose to a level where first it causes nervous system symptoms (sweating, palpitations, hunger, trembling, and anxiety), then begins to affect the brain (causing confusion, hallucinations, blurred vision, and sometimes even coma and death). An actual diagnosis of hypoglycemia requires satisfying the "Whipple triad." These three criteria include:\n\n    * Documented low glucose levels (less than 40 mg/dL (2.2 mmol/L) often tested along with insulin levels and sometimes with C-Peptide levels)\n    * Symptoms of hypoglycemia\n    * Reversal of the symptoms when blood glucose levels are returned to normal. \n\nPrimary hypoglycemia is rare and often diagnosed in infancy. People may have symptoms of hypoglycemia without really having low blood
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I'm diabetic (high sugar) but I can still have a low depending on my meds, when I ate last, stress, too much exercise, etc.  I tend to feel shakey, tremble, get a headache, get irritable.\n\nSix years after diagnoses I still don't have any symptoms to show that my blood sugar is too high.  The only way I know is to use my meter.
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According to a medical book normal is 80-120. I know some doctors consider anything over 100 high especially if it is consistently over that amount. Diabetes.org has a lot of info. Call their 800 # and they will send free a packet of info (or you can order it on-line) from the American Diabetes Assoc. \n\nIf you are diabetic only your doctor can say what is OK for you. Some are happy with well over 120 if it is an improvement from your non-treated readings.
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OK. I just want to clarify a few things and that should answer your question.  First of all any sugar in the urine is abnormal and could be A sigh of diabetes.   Usually it takes a blood sugar level of 180-200 before Sugar is found in urine (just for reference normal blood sugar levels are between 70 and 110). Now if it is a blood sugar of 60, it is low and Its not something to shrug off.  Low blood sugar is very dangerous and can lead to coma and death.  Realistically 60 would not warrant fear, however glucose should be given to increase it back to normal.  In addition you need to monitor for consistently low blood glucose levels and if they are continually low a physician should evaluate you to see why.  Back to the urine, if it has sugar in you I world recommend you seek medical attention.
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Fasting blood sugar should be 120 or less. Two, seperate readings of 125 or greater, while fasting, is indicative of diabetes. Normal range is 90 to 120 fasting.
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I was recently told by my doctor, (I am also diabetic), that anything over 110 can BEGIN to cause damage.\n\nSo sorry, but you will have to wait for another answer for the low end, as i do not know.\n\nI will be checking back to find out though.\n\nGood question.\n\nUpdate: \nAt the above mentioned Dr.'s appt. I seem to remember 70 or 80 for a healthy low.
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90 is a great blood glucose number! Who told you it should be higher? The Keeblers Elves? Sara Lee?\n\nCheck out this information from the National Institutes of Health, which says that for non-diabetics, normal fasting blood sugar should be 70-110, and after eating should be 70-140:\nhttp://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/hypoglycemia/index.htm\n\nLosing weight and passing out may indicate some kind of health problems, but 90 blood glucose would indicate that diabetes is not the problem.
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Theoretically if your blood sugar IS higher than 126 mg/dl before breakfast, it should be measured again and if it still is higher than 126 mg/dl then diabetes CAN be diagnosed... did your doctor measure your blood sugar before breakfast more than once? if he didn't then you should insist on him ordering the labs again because you MIGHT have the disease.\nHope you found this useful.\n\nYou should check out this link: http://www.diabetes.org/home.jsp
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yeah i have no idea where you get 7.2. but you won't read this if your sugar is 7.2 right now.  Normal reading is 70-110.  This can fluctuate from stress like surgery or exercise (either up or down) and from food.   Your doctor can administer the oral glucose tolerance test, test a fasting sugar, and draw a HbA1c with is the average of the last 3 months of blood sugars.  In fact that 7.2 sounds more like that test.  If you are diabetic, you will start to see excessive eating, this due to your bodys cells telling you that they have glucose to process because it is all in you bloodstream and is unable to get into the cells due to lack of insulin.  Excessive urination, from your body's safety mechanism for purging glucose from the body throught the kidneys along with ketones when the sugar gets really high.  Finally excessive drinking, from being dehydrated from all the urination, also it lowers the bodys pH from ketosis. (ketones in blood).  For your last question about the speed of sugar entering the bloodstream, sugar and carbs entering the blood stream is delayed or slowed by anything that takes longer to digest (fats or protein) For example, a bag of skittles would raise you blood sugar faster than that chocolate.
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Generally that would be a good number, but it depends on when it was taken and the sircumstances.  If that is your reading more than 2 hrs after you have eaten or drank anything other thatn water, that would be ok.  If that is your reading after you had recently eaten, you could be hypoglycemic (low blood sugar).  It is usually best to check your BS reading at least 2 hrs after you have eaten, and not in the morning (some people have naturally elevated readings in the morning).  As always with any health related issues, you should take the advice of your doctor and not rely on board like this one.
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I'm not a doctor but have had diabetes for 38 years and know a bit about it. Blood sugar levels can be influanced by diet, exersise, stress, medications and a bunch more things. I would ask her doctor about any new meds she's taking and if they could raise her blood sugars. If she's taking medications for type 2 diabetes, make sure she takes them ontime and eats ontime and her regular diet. Doctors tell me to keep my blood sugars averaging below 160. Talk to her doctor and see what they think. Good luck.