RE: Re: ukpds . . .

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I used tape, called Test –strips. Also used chem. Strips and previous to

that, used clinitest tablets. You had to have a littlle kit with a test

tube, eye dropper and in the middle would fit a bottle of 25 clinitest

tablets. You put 5 drops of urine, 10 drops of water in the test tube

and then dropped in a tablet. If your urine was negative of sugar, the

solution bubbled up and turned blue. If there was any sugar it would

vary in color from greens to brown to the dreaded ORANGE! It was very

inaccurate. I found out much later that I had a high kidney threshold

and never showed any sugar in my urine until it was probably up around

200. So you can see how inaccurate that was-but that is all there was

at the time.

Re: ukpds . . .

Hi,Yes that what the Chemstrips were for,it has not been that long

since they stopped using them We3inc

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> Chemstrips? I'm trying to remember. Were those the strips used to

check sugar in the urine? NO, I don't think so. I remember using

some kind of tape that came out of a dispenser. Horribly inaccurate,

but there wasn't anything else. I was a teenager, very active, and

felt in excellent health, despite running 4h very much of the time as

I recall. Oh, that was the highest reading on the test tape! <frown>

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> Dave

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> ukpds . . .

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> Hi Jen,

>

> Very interesting article. One thing though, is to remember is

that there

> was testing the urine and then testing the blood using a poker

called the

> Autolet and using b.g. chemstrips before the meters, so we still

kept a

> fairly good reign over the sugars the best we could. The other

thing I

> think is that a big part of the problem is that a lot of people

are not

> compliant to the lifestyle or diet. The fasting blood sugars can

be fudged

> by really watching what you're eating for a couple of days, so

the fasting

> blood glucose could lead the doctor to believe that things are

under

> control. Bad thing! I also know many type 2 diabetics, that no

matter what

> you tell them and what they see, that they believe it's not going

to happen

> to me and do not smarten up before it's too late.

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> Ruth

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