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Low blood sugars in child

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ineedastrongercoffee · 28/11/2022 15:03

My apologies I’m posting for traffic

my nearly 4 year old DD has recurring low blood sugars. She’s had a lot of challenges since being born at 33 weeks (twin) with IUGR.

she is still teeny tiny, for height way below the start of the growth charts.

her blood sugars have been 2.4 (at the lowest when she was very poorly) to 2.8 and usually they’re at 3 (the starting level for “normal” is 3.2)

she’s going in for a fasting blood sugar test in a couple of weeks.

she’s under an endocrinologist but all tests so far have shown that her lack of height (or growth - she only grew 0.2cm in 4 months) is not down to a hormone issue, so we’re about to be transferred to a general paediatric consultant.

we’ve had karyotype genetic tests which all came back ok.

diabetes is not suspected as her sugar levels are not going high just very low

Doctors are being very vague (as I don’t think they know at the moment) but does anyone else have experience of unexplained low blood sugars

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MilkyYay · 28/11/2022 15:10

You should go on the child growth foundation facebook page, there are people on there knowledgeable about this

ineedastrongercoffee · 29/11/2022 11:50

MilkyYay · 28/11/2022 15:10

You should go on the child growth foundation facebook page, there are people on there knowledgeable about this

thank you, i've joined the group on facebook and am getting some good advice.

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lonelymamof4 · 12/03/2023 01:54

Did you ever get any answers regarding the low blood sugars going through this with my child at the moment

Oblomov23 · 12/03/2023 03:56

There is another thread running about this from a different poster.

OnlyTheWeedsGrow · 12/03/2023 04:28

@lonelymamof4
From my experience with my DC, check out Ketotic Hypoglycaemia - Rapid Starvation Response. Especially if DC has sweet/pear/ketone breath in the mornings.

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