Thread: glucose levels

Thanks for your post.? when he mentioned it that's what i thought too but he said he is not looking for diabetes but rather a blood brain connection where although the child is not diabetic she might not be getting enough glucose in her brain.? i don't think i'm going through with it since no one else has heard of this and the other 2 neuro she saw did not suggest it. ?

This sounds like the glucose tolerance test you take when you are pregnant to determine if you have gestational diabetes.? Along those lines, my?brother is a juvenile diabetic.? When he was a kid he would have seizures with low blood sugar and we would have to give him glucagon (instant glucose) to get him out of them.? Perhaps he is testing to see if there some similar correlation with your daughter.? If so, when she has a seizure, you can...

HI Alta, I have never heard of basing medication or not on anything like this. I have heard of kids being more prone to seizures when their sugar is low although this is not anything told to me by a doctor, just from other parents experiences. What this doctor wants to do doesn't really make sense to me and I have never heard anything like it. Did you try to google it for info? Kari