A diabetic question?????

Question

For a petite, 13 year old girl going through puberty with the type of diabetes that you inherit, what does her blood sugar have to be until she goes into diabetic shock?

Answer 1

You can inherit either type.  Shock occurs when you're much too high or much too low.  How high/low?  Depends on the person, the environmental factors, and how quickly you got there.  If you ate 12 Fruit roll ups your sugar is going to soar fast.  The same way if you cross a huge hot parking lot on the muggiest day of the year, your sugar is going to plummet.  

They say anything under 65 you can enter a coma.  It's more how quickly you get there though.  My daughter has been playing at 37 and another time she was falling over at 55.  The difference is, the time she was 55 we were at church and the AC was broken.  you could walk around with a BG of 700 if it snuck up on you.

Answer 2

That is a scary question.  Are you the petite 13 year old?  I'm aware of teens not taking enough insulin too keep their weight down.  If you are diabetic you must do all you can to keep your glucose level within range.  Too high or too low can lead to eventual complications.  Severe hypoglycemia and ketoacidosis are serious problems.

Answer 3

You don't inherit diabetes, only the likelihood of developing it.

Answer 4

it depends on the person.  I would start feeling funny when my sugars were in the 60's.  Some people can function well below that.  I'd say that around the 20's people start having some serious trouble, but that all really depends on each person.