what is considered high or low blood sugar?? (american values)

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sorry we use different units in canada for blood sugar... so his low

level was 3 (50 in your units) and his high level was 12 (220 in

your units)

thanks again!

> SO I mentioned last week that we started monitoring s sugar

> levels to get an idea of what they are doing...

> up until today they have been consistently between 4 and 7 which

we

> were told is perfect...

> he has been eating all the time, and generally in a great mood...

>

> Today it all fell apart... his sugar was 3 when he got up from his

> nap, and he was HUNGRY (in spite of the HUGE breakfast hed had

> earlier... 2 cups rice crispies, soy milk, bread) so I checked

again

> an hour after he ate lunch (plain macaroni, nutrigrain bar, and

soy

> milk) and it was 12 ... Is this high??? it seemed really high to

me,

> but I dont really know what is normal... he has never gone over 8

> before, so it just seemed way up there, but again were new at this

> so i dont know whats normal.

>

> Thanks!

> Keely