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Originally Posted by GuitarManDave  I have four young boys. Needless to say I will be demanding A1Cs from their doctors every year so they can avoid my fate. If you have children you might want to do the same.
Dave |
Dave,
I'm the person who wrote the article you cited.
Don't get an A1c. It will be deceptively low because of the normal fasting blood sugar.
Because the flaw in most forms of MODY limits the secretion of insulin in response to rising glucose, what you need to do with your kids is
test their blood sugar 1, 2 and 3 hours after a high carb meal once every six months. A bagel eaten after a fast works very well.
When we did this with my daughter, we discovered her blood sugar rose to 130 and then stayed there for three hours, which is highly abnormal in a very fit, very physically active young person. This gave us the tipoff that she probably has the gene and also gave me a better idea of what my blood sugars were probably like in my 20s. My daughter controls her blood sugar with a low carb diet now. She feels much better when she eats that way, and like me, she gains weight if she eats carbs.
My son, in contrast, was in the 90s an hour after eating dessert on Thanksgiving. No problem there!
