What is the normal blood glucose level in units?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Formerly working in a medical lab, normal range for glucose levels used to be 70-125 (that could be for fasting and non-fasting). In the past few years, doctors have "downgraded" these numbers (I think they are now saying only up to 100-110 is normal). I have several friends who have been put on oral diabetes medicine, in keeping with these new guidelines. When one of them went to a new doctor, he was told that he was not diabetic, so he really did not have to stick his finger a few times every day & take pills. I do wonder, however, if this is a good preventative measure against REAL future diabetes, or if it just a way to prescribe the many new drugs that affect blood sugar levels, that pharmaceutical companies are pushing.

Answer 3

A normal fasting blood glucose level is from 80-100. I am not sure what is normal if you aren't fasting. You can look it up on the Internet.

Answer 4

Fasting blood glucose should be less than 126 mg/dl, preferably around 100
Postprandial (after eating a meal) glucose should be less than 200mg/dl, preferably under 150

Answer 5

It depends on when you take it. It will be higher right after eating of course, but in general you are looking at around 80ish - 100ish mg/Dl. I say ish because this really isn't an exact number, it varies a little for everyone, you are really just looking more for trends when a d-stick is taken long term and looking for any significant variance from normal ranges.

Answer 6

Low = 7 mmol/L (126 mg/dL)
Normal = 9 mmol/L (162 md/dL)
High = 11 mmol/L (198 mg/dL)


(1 mmol/L of glucose = 18 mg/dL)

Answer 7

it depends on when...before or after eating.

i think its between 3 and 7 mmol/l before eating
and between 7 and 11 mmol/l after

my grandparents and father are diabetics.