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Q: Australian BG readings different ?
asked by: jennyettie on March 9th, 2009
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A blood sugar reading of 585 ? Is that in America? Here in Australia our numbers are very different. My daughter has gestational diabetes and was told to keep hers around 7 but sometimes she goes up to 8. She tested me the other day and I was 8 but shot up to 10.3 after eating 3 slices of pizza. I have never had high blood sugar ... but have had high insulin and low sugar, which I fixed by eating a low carbohydrate diet. I will go to my doctor and ask for a three hour glucose tolerance test to see if I am fluctuating too wildly.
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Dr. Joel W. Steelman , MD
replied on November 3rd, 2009
The US uses blood sugar readings in units of milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl). Australia and most European countries use the metric measure of millimoles per liter (mmol/l). Conversion between the two unit measures is done by a factor of 18. You convert mg/dl to mmol/l by dividing the mg/dl measure by 18.

Your post-meal blood sugar may or may not be abnormal depending upon the timing of when you took the blood sugar. The standard method for diagnosing diabetes or other blood sugar problems is either an overnight fasting blood sugar or as you mentioned above an oral glucose tolerance test.




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