Kinda relieved now.
My dad is in hospital, with high bloodsugar values. 40mmol/liter, on an empty stomach.
He was in a screening routine for sugar, because of age and a quite aggressive diabetes 2 family history, and all was well till last week. This week he went off the chart. They could not measure his values at the local health clinic.
Now he is on IV insulin, and IV rehydration fluids.
I hope that he's doing much better soon.
Wow!
I just did the conversion to the units I'm more familiar with and that's 720 mg/dl, which I think is much higher than my mother's blood glucose levels when they found out that she was diabetic. I think that is the highest blood glucose level that I have ever heard of.
I hope that they also checked him for an infection because I think that my mom ran crazy high fasting blood glucose (but not that high) whenever she had an infection.
Yes, it was off the charts, they could not read it at the GP. The highest I had heard of till now was my uncles, 36 mmol/liter. He used to have weird readings, impossible ones according to some medics. He once was way below 1 mmol/liter, and, still conscious.
They are checking his thyroid. And probably will do more extended bloodwork too. He is on a strict controlling routine already. So, all of this is recent stuff. His blood had gone thicker than it should be last week, but, it often does that.
The insulin was already making him feel better. He is sleeping less according to my mother.
