blood sugar

[Jeff Tikari]

Do home portable glucose meters have to be calibrated
once in a while?
Jeff
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[Rochelle Marsden]

Not the one I have!!! The strips can be tested with control solutions if you think they are way out.
Rochelle Marsden Msc, RSHom, MNWCH, AAMET

Registered with the Society of Homeopaths

EFT(Advanced) Practitioner

www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Tikari
Sent: 23 May 2011 12:11
To: Mintus Group
Subject: [Minutus] blood sugar
Do home portable glucose meters have to be calibrated

once in a while?
Jeff
http://www.smashwords/books/search?query=Jeff+Tikari

[Sue Boyle]

Hi Jeff,

Rochelle is right, they all should come with calibration strips and solutions to do the testing . In a hospital setting, we tested weekly but at home once a month should do it.

Sue

[healthinfo6]

No. You test the batch of strips you are using. There is an industry allowable range of error, say about +/- 50 points but each brand of meter is different. Each bottle of test strips has it's test range on label.. You have a glucose control solution that you use instead of blood to test the meter. The test result needs to be in the range shown on the label. Each time you test your blood, the result could be +/- 30-50 more or less from the true value. One way to test your meter accuracy is to get a lab blood test and take your blood glucose meter test when they draw blood and compare the result from the lab with your meter result from that time. I have 3 meters from 2 brands. Ultra 2 and Ultra Mini usually are same readings, Freestyle is usually 20 points more each test. The differences also vary depending on how high blood glucose is at testing. I've found higher levels show more discrepancy.
Susan

[Jeff Tikari]

Can a person have high blood sugar(300+) without having diabetes?

The person has none of the symptoms of Diabetes. Her fasting reading

Is actually higher than her after food reading.
Jeff Tikari

[Sandeep Saluja]

It is diabetes!

[UK Homoeopathy]

Unfortunately it is diabetes
Regards

Mohamed Caffoor

http://www.ukhomeopathy.co.uk

[Irene de Villiers]

Yes - It happens when the source of the problem is not the pancreas. For exampe in Cushigns syndrome, high cortisol leverl forces high insulin which in turn forces insulin resistance (with no pancreas misbehavior) and thus high glucose as the cortisol breaks down protein tissues to glucose in a catabolic reaction in the liver.
Eating protein lowers the glucose becasuse it lowers the cortisol - wich slows the catabolism and thus slows glucose production by cortisol.
I am not saying this person has Cushigns syndrome - but Cushoigns is ONE of several metabolic malfunctios that can cause what you describe.
A more likely explanation though:
The fasting reading is also affected by the length of fast, and may be what you are seeing.
If you eat within 8 hours, there is not a very high glucose level, but after 8 hrs the liver starts to madly convert body resources to glucose and the glucose level will rise sharply, until food supplies glucose again and the liver can turn off its panic response to a longer than 8 hr fast.
It is called "dawn phenomenon".

(Glucose shoud always be below 110 if you do not want body damage.)
Namaste,
Irene

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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

[Rochelle Marsden]

I would say this person has diabetes of some variety. A high fasting reading can be due to dawn phenomenon where it drops down too low during the night and the liver kicks in to convert glycogen to glucose and dump it in the blood. The time to take a blood test is 2 hours after eating not straight after . You don’t necessarily have to have classical symptoms to have diabetes. But if your blood sugar is too high you risk damage to the body including blindness and amputation. This person needs to have an HBA1C test which tells you the average blood sugar over the last 3 months.
Rochelle
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: 06 November 2014 10:35
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] blood sugar
Can a person have high blood sugar(300+) without having diabetes?

The person has none of the symptoms of Diabetes. Her fasting reading

Is actually higher than her after food reading.
Jeff Tikari

[Irene de Villiers]

Excellent suggestion yes.
But in every case, high blood glucose is bad.
I know they officially tell you to read it two hrs after eating, but that is asking for trouble. A healthy person has no rise after a normal meal at all, certainly not past 110. Waiting two hrs is an excuse to get more peope into diabetic damage before they take action.

Over 110 does body damage ANY time it is over 110 ... and the American Diabetes Association ENCOURAGES body damage with their nonsense about eating carbs and two hour waits. Carbs are toxins. SKIP the starch altogether and eat more fun stuff.
A better way to manage high glucose adn repair the body - whether high glucose is from metabolic illness or diabetes, is to use the approaches of Dr Bersterin in his book (Dr Bernstein's Diabetes Solution - g et the latest editioj - he updates regularly from research) . That man KNOWS about diabetes adn what it does (he is diabetic himself) and gives you the real truth about how the metabolism works and what options there are. He is an allopath but he knows his stuff well.

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."