Glucose conversion
Common Questions and Answers about Glucose conversion
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Insulin and C-peptide are produced by the body at the same rate as part of the conversion of proinsulin to insulin in the pancreas. The test for insulin measures insulin from both sources while the C-peptide test reflects insulin produced by the pancreas.
Reference values are dependent on many factors, including patient age, gender, test method, and numeric test results can have different meanings in different labs.
For these reasons, you will not find reference ranges on iNet.
Just wanted to ask all mums with gestational diabetes, when you check your glucose levels with a monitor how long after a meal are you required to do so? What's the maximum mmol you should be or aim for? Just curious, coz here in the UK they expect us to achieve a job max of 7.5mmol an HOUR after a meal! It's very difficult....
Hello,
To me, I hope that I am wrong, you are likely a pre-diabetic, either type 1 or 2 . Question: Why with a single and random glucose reading at 165, that I conclude such guessing. Answer:It's very simply, a 5th grader can conclude the same thing as I did.Why? Because a non diabetic reading is almost always less then 120, even 1 hr. after meal.
If very low before a meal, then I would take glucose to correct the low. Note that 15 g of glucose may be too much. You need to work out how much 1 g of glucose will raise your sugars. If I was say 49.... I would probably only take 10g of sugar/ glucose. Then i would eat my meal as planned once sugars started coming up... but being a bit cautious about the bolus amount to cover meals.
post-meal glucose values of less than 140mg/dL are thought to be ideal and this is the goal we use for tight gucose control in diabetic, but under 180mg/dL is acceptable as well and still out of diabetes range.
Given your Mother's diagnosis it is always best to try to optimize your own health anyway. Try cutting back on the sweets, making healthier choices with your food overall and being on a regular exercise routine.
Do these values seem to indicate an underlying issue with T3 conversion or not? I have to wait 2-1/2 months to see my new endocrinologist. Was hoping for some insight.
TSH: 1.51
Free T4: 1.3
Rev T3: 22
Free T3: 2.8
I had been on Levothyroxine for 2 months, but I took this blood test on the day of my final dose. I am now off all thyroid meds because they were making me feel increasingly worse.
F/T-3 level with F/T-4 relates to conversion problems. However conversion is very rare and if it does happen usually last a week or two....per what I have read from medicals.
Low TSH will carry a High F/T-4, so by raising the TSH level will/should bring down your F/T-4. F/Ts goes the opposite direction and TSH, as dosage is adjusted.
Adequate selenium is necessary for normal functioning of the immune system and thyroid gland.
In order to provide the correct measuring unit it would help to know your country of origin. This is what the Stanford School of Medicine says in mg/dl. You will have to do the mmol/l conversion as needed:
Infant -
Normal glucose levels for infants are between 40 and 200 mg/dl. Constant levels, however, lower than 50 mg/dl leads to neurolgical damage.
Children up to 5
For children up to age 5, normal blood sugar targets are 100 to 200mg/dL.
During fasting, glycogen is broken down and converted into glucose. This glycogen conversion into glucose is important in maintaining the blood glucose level. Therefore, during fasting, maintenance of the blood glucose level depends more on glycogen conversion than on sugars we eat. In severe liver disease, this mechanism can be disrupted, leading to hypoglycemia. Kidney failure also can lead to hypoglycemia, especially when the person is deprived of food.
With sugar levels of 79 mg/dl this is extremely low and you would experience hypoglycaemic symptoms like slurred speech, headache, lack of concentration, extreme hunger and nausea and you would need immediate help by ingesting glucose or if you did go into a coma, then be hospitalised and put on a drip to administer glucose into your body.
A HbA1c or A1c reading of 7 would not put you in the risk of getting into a coma. This is the equivalent of 154 mg/dl and 8.
With a low carb diet like you're eating, I wouldn't expect your blood glucose levels to go any higher than they are. A meal of red meat and veggies, with only 2 bites of roasted potato won't increase blood glucose levels like bread, fruits and other simple carbs do and since you aren't increasing your blood glucose levels, neither will you be spiking your insulin levels all that much.
Rule out low or high blood pressure, check complete blood count for anemia and polycythemia, antiphospholipid antibodies for coagulopathy and urinalysis for glucose. You may also need neuroimaging study to rule out intracranial pathology, which could also be affecting visual pathway. Consider these speculations. Auditory hallucinations could have been due to hyponatremia since they got better with treatment. Wish you all the best.
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