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Worried about my 5 year old son

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Jode said:
Hi ya,
Thanks for your reply, I am also in the UK, just on one of the islands- hence the flights to main hospital. I see the lady said her son's reading was 6- well that's what I was told about my girls when doc first called us in, she said her urine was reading 6 and that almost 100% meant she is diabetic. I didn't know they could be any other conclusion. Sorry, very new to it all so probably spoke without properly understanding what the person was saying.
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Oops sorry , I just assumed you were over the pond where BG measurements are different.
Not to self to put my reading glasses on
 
Channel Isles, perhaps, Jody? - know the main D expertise there is on Jersey.
 
Jode said:
I see the lady said her son's reading was 6- well that's what I was told about my girls when doc first called us in, she said her urine was reading 6 and that almost 100% meant she is diabetic.
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I think the confusion is because the original poster was talking about a blood glucose test, and If I understand correctly, the test that showed 6 for your daughter was a urine test. There shouldn't really be any glucose in urine at all, so 6 in that case is very high.
 
Oh Robin thank you! think that will be where the confusion is indeed. Thanks for taking time to let me know! Scottish Isles Jenny!
 
Also, I hope all is well with Christina's son
 
Ah, right!

Now then - supposing a person has a normal renal threshhold - glucose does not even start spilling into your urine, until the equivalent blood test reading is 11 ! So where the heck does '6' come from? Was it 6 - or 17?

Anyway - nobody needs to concern themselves over that now, do we - cos all the readings will be blood test ones now !
 
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