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Re: Belle- low carb/high carb diet before IGTT - 72 hours of high Carb?
From: gayle (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:25:52 -0500 (CDT)
Thanks Belle for your quick response. If she starts back on a "normal"
diet eg. with carbs how long should she wait before the test (72hours?)
I'm worried that if she starts on the carbs again her weight will start
to skyrocket again (she was gaining 2kilos every 2 or 3 days prior to
starting the low carb and had put on 17kilos in 7 weeks, now with low
carb she's not loosing but has stopped gaining...thank god!)- Thanks for
your help - Gayle
At Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Belle wrote:
>
>A diet that is low in carbs will alter the way that your test results
>come out. If you have been eating a low carb diet, your fasting sugar
>levels will be lower because you have not eaten as many carbs and your
>insulin levels will be lower because you did not have as much glucose to
>metabolize. With these values lower, your levels will not go as high as
>they would normally after you ingest the sugar drink.
>
>Your dr or nurse should give you this information but they do not often
>do so. For documentation, I have used "Diagnostic Tests". Springhouse
>Corporation, Springhouse, Pennsylvania. I know that this information is
>in other publications but I have this one handy.
>
>At Sat, 17 Jun 2000, gayle wrote:
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>>My daughter has been on a low carb diet for the past 6 weeks with little
>>results. She had an inititial blood test for GTT which showed normal.
>>She has changed doctors and found one who has agreed to test her Insulin
>>Resistance. I have just been reading all the archive messages on the
>>testing and came across one in which Belle said that a high carb diet
>>should be followed for 72 hours before testing. Is this correct? Would
>>her low carb diet affected her GTT results? Thanks for your help, any
>>information on the testing and the diet is appreciated as her doctor is
>>trying to help but is going on our information and I am not confident
>>about the requirements at all.
>>
>>--
>>Gayle
>>
>--
>Hope this helps,
>
>Belle
>
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