Converting readings?

[Tiggy26]

Ok guys,

I'm TOTALLY confused here!!
I take it most of you are in the States and so refer to your BS in mg?
I am from London and have absolutely no idea how to convert mg to mmol?
Just so I can undersatdn the threads easier...can anyone help?!

do i have to divide? multiply?!

HELP!!
he he
:stupido3:

[Doetsch]

mmol - mg = multiply mmol by 18 to get mg

mg - mmol = multiply mg by .055 or divide by 18 to get mmol

a 8 mmol = 144 mg and so on....

BTW: Welcome to the forums.

What is a Milimole anyway :)

[dws]

Milli-mole is a little mouse like thing that lives under your garden! :)
don

[seacomp]

Welcome Tiggy! Bad that you have to be here, good that you are here. There's a "sticky" thread in Diabetes "Handy Conversion" that has little programs to convert all the relevant units.
As to
What is a Milimole anyway :)
Chemists sometimes measure by weight (e.g. mg - miligrams) and sometimes by concentration. A "mole" is a specified number of molecules of a particular substance (specifically 6 X 10^23), a milimole is 1/1000 of that. Since chemical, and biological, reactions occur between set ratios of ingredients, calculations in moles (or for biology, milimole) makes life easier.
For example, water H2O, is two moles of hydrogen and one mole of oxygen. But the weights of the reactants are very different; oxygen is approx. 16 times heavier than hydrogen so spoecifing the reaction by weight looks different and is not so clear as to what is happening.
Hope I haven't confused things too much!

[Tiggy26]

Ha ha!!
Well THATS not confusing at ALL!!!
thanks Seacomp!! he he!!

Sucks to be here but glad I'm here - if you know what I mean...!!

Tiggy

[Doetsch]

Welcome Tiggy! Bad that you have to be here, good that you are here. There's a "sticky" thread in Diabetes "Handy Conversion" that has little programs to convert all the relevant units.
As to

Chemists sometimes measure by weight (e.g. mg - miligrams) and sometimes by concentration. A "mole" is a specified number of molecules of a particular substance (specifically 6 X 10^23), a milimole is 1/1000 of that. Since chemical, and biological, reactions occur between set ratios of ingredients, calculations in moles (or for biology, milimole) makes life easier.
For example, water H2O, is two moles of hydrogen and one mole of oxygen. But the weights of the reactants are very different; oxygen is approx. 16 times heavier than hydrogen so spoecifing the reaction by weight looks different and is not so clear as to what is happening.
Hope I haven't confused things too much!

?!?!? - That's French to me. I'll stick with Mg :)

[Belinda]

Wll I guess it is that way because our lovely administrator is from the USA....there is a chart that I posted some time ago that has the conversions. Not sure where but when I get back to my house if you like I will PM it to you. As for me doing the math......yuck....

[Lynne1]

Ok guys,

I'm TOTALLY confused here!!
I take it most of you are in the States and so refer to your BS in mg?
I am from London and have absolutely no idea how to convert mg to mmol?
Just so I can undersatdn the threads easier...can anyone help?!

do i have to divide? multiply?!

HELP!!
he he
:stupido3:
From what I gather from reading the posts you need to divide mg by 18 to get the mmol. So if my bs is 180 mg it would be 180/18 = 10 mmol.

Does that make sense?

[Doetsch]

It might be a little easier multipling by .055, Maybe just for me :)

[JMaldo]

Are there any other readings that convert? Maybe we need our own calculator. Not hard to make either. Let me know...I can see it now. Diabetes Forums Own Calculator.lol

[Lynne1]

You can do the calculation on excel or on the calculator on your computer.

[JMaldo]

You can do the calculation on excel or on the calculator on your computer.

Yeah your right, but i like this much better...

[seacomp]

Are there any other readings that convert? Maybe we need our own calculator. Not hard to make either. Let me know...I can see it now. Diabetes Forums Own Calculator.lol
There already is such a thing!!!
The very first item in the diabetes main forum is "Handy Unit Converters".
Hello?:wavey:

[JMaldo]

There already is such a thing!!!
The very first item in the diabetes main forum is "Handy Unit Converters".
Hello?:wavey:

lol, what a tuff crowd to please.lol :ridinghor

jk,,your right next time ill look before i take time to make one for this site.:tee:

[condensr]

say, even cooler would be a plug in for the board that allowed you to set your preferred unit and automatically converted values for you. It wouldn't work if you didn't specify a unit in a post, tho.

So, for instance, if I made a post and said "120 mg/dl" somewhere in the post, it would automatically change that text to "6.7 mmol". To the reader, it would look like I posted in MMOL. Or, it could add the conversion, to maybe look like "120 mg/dl [6.7 mmol]"..

However, if I just said "my sugar was 120", it wouldnt work cause 120 is just an arbitrary number; I didn't specify a unit.

[seacomp]

However, if I just said "my sugar was 120", it wouldnt work cause 120 is just an arbitrary number; I didn't specify a unit.
Actually figuring out that 120 was in US not European measurements is a lot easier than doing the autoconversion you want on free-form text.
ANY european measurement is an extreme low in US measurement; any american measurement, except an extreme low, is off the map high in European measurement.