blood ketone/gluscose monitor- which one?

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone

I was wondering if any of you guys out there could recommend a blood

ketone monitor? We are UK based. our son Harry is to start the keto

diet Mon 2nd asug 9not that i am counting or anything!!!!

a ;-)

[Guest guest]

Hi a

It's the Medisense Optium. You buy it in the chemist - it costs

about £15 and is easily available as diabetics use it to measure

blood glucose. You then need to get the blood ketone strips on

prescription on a regular basis. Make sure that both your GP and the

chemist understand that it's the blood ketone electrodes you need,

not the blood glucose electrodes. A word of warning, they are

expensive! £26 per box of 8 strips. My GP has agreed to one per

day, but I originally wanted 2 per day (before I realised hoooow

expensive they are). I like to measure blood ketones each morning,

as Francesca is still quite variable in the mornings, which I do not

understand!

I wrote an explanation of how to use them, how to get blood from a

child etc (!), which is on the 's Friends website. Go into

the member's forum, Living with Epilepsy, Practical Advice, Measuring

ketones and there it is. If you have any more questions, shout!

Take care

, Mum to Francesca, Keto Kid since Sept 03, drug free since May

04, who coped very well at a barbecue tonight with her sausage and

barbecued mushrooms (with coconut oil, garlic and thyme) and didn't

sneak a thing off the buffet table - hurray! (Rearranged all the

dried flower displays, but there we are...)

> Hi everyone

>

> I was wondering if any of you guys out there could recommend a

blood

> ketone monitor? We are UK based. our son Harry is to start the keto

> diet Mon 2nd asug 9not that i am counting or anything!!!!

>

> a ;-)

[Guest guest]

Hi a

It's the Medisense Optium. You buy it in the chemist - it costs

about £15 and is easily available as diabetics use it to measure

blood glucose. You then need to get the blood ketone strips on

prescription on a regular basis. Make sure that both your GP and the

chemist understand that it's the blood ketone electrodes you need,

not the blood glucose electrodes. A word of warning, they are

expensive! £26 per box of 8 strips. My GP has agreed to one per

day, but I originally wanted 2 per day (before I realised hoooow

expensive they are). I like to measure blood ketones each morning,

as Francesca is still quite variable in the mornings, which I do not

understand!

I wrote an explanation of how to use them, how to get blood from a

child etc (!), which is on the 's Friends website. Go into

the member's forum, Living with Epilepsy, Practical Advice, Measuring

ketones and there it is. If you have any more questions, shout!

Take care

, Mum to Francesca, Keto Kid since Sept 03, drug free since May

04, who coped very well at a barbecue tonight with her sausage and

barbecued mushrooms (with coconut oil, garlic and thyme) and didn't

sneak a thing off the buffet table - hurray! (Rearranged all the

dried flower displays, but there we are...)

> Hi everyone

>

> I was wondering if any of you guys out there could recommend a

blood

> ketone monitor? We are UK based. our son Harry is to start the keto

> diet Mon 2nd asug 9not that i am counting or anything!!!!

>

> a ;-)