Klarinet Archive - Posting 000036.txt from 2001/03

From: Stephen Heinemann <sjh@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] thirst
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:37:01 -0500

Bill wrote:

> Most diabetics don't discover that they're diabetic
> until they're in the emergency room, so don't wait to check it out.
>
> That's excellent advice. I don't know about the "very" part, or
> even the "likely" part, but it _does_ happen more than "almost never".
> I woke up in the emergency room this way when I was 16.
>
And Audrey wrote:

> Diabetes is a serious condition and should NOT be diagnosed by anyone
> except a doctor. The doctor will check on other symptoms, too. High
> blood
> sugars do NOT necessarily mean you are diabetic.
>
Quite right on both counts. Juvenile diabetes is not common, so "very
likely" is an overstatement, and a medical doctor is a much better source
than a musical doctor. But if a person thinks they might be diabetic (and
displays symptoms such as constant thirst and going to the bathroom forty
times a day), a blood glucose test of 300 when a "normal" reading is about
70 should, at the least, be an indication that a voluntary trip to the
medical doctor is in order and might avoid the involuntary trip.

Steve Heinemann
Bradley University

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