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DR. MAUSETH:
Now the diagnosis in the acute
phase is sometimes confused because it's a real
question is this a stress response or is it
truly diabetes. And the degree of elevation
of blood sugar is what is going to give you the
answer there. If you have an extremely high
blood sugar of three or four hundred, it is the more
likely that the pancreas is less sufficient to
allow it. The longer a period of time you have
the elevated sugar, the more likely that you're
to have permanent problems with the diabetes.
Now, there are some tests you
can do, some of these are hospitalized
tests. Fasting blood
sugar is a good test. It should be under a
hundred. Post granule blood sugar tests should
be under 170 or 180 depending on how old your
child is, or the patient is.
