Is a blood test the only reliable test for diabetes?

Think so.

A blood test is really easy, most diabetics do it every day at home. By the time my mother died, I had over 200 spare blood test kits.

mollwollfumble said:

Think so.

A blood test is really easy, most diabetics do it every day at home. By the time my mother died, I had over 200 spare blood test kits.

what’s in a blood test kit?

in ye olden days, they used peeing on an ants nest as a test for diabetes

stumpy_seahorse said:

mollwollfumble said:

Think so.

A blood test is really easy, most diabetics do it every day at home. By the time my mother died, I had over 200 spare blood test kits.

what’s in a blood test kit?

in ye olden days, they used peeing on an ants nest as a test for diabetes

Or the doctors just dipped in the finger and had a taste.

stumpy_seahorse said:

mollwollfumble said:

Think so.

A blood test is really easy, most diabetics do it every day at home. By the time my mother died, I had over 200 spare blood test kits.

what’s in a blood test kit?

in ye olden days, they used peeing on an ants nest as a test for diabetes

Did they go mad over the sugar in the urine ?

Cymek said:

stumpy_seahorse said:

mollwollfumble said:

Think so.

A blood test is really easy, most diabetics do it every day at home. By the time my mother died, I had over 200 spare blood test kits.

what’s in a blood test kit?

in ye olden days, they used peeing on an ants nest as a test for diabetes

Did they go mad over the sugar in the urine ?

ottomh something to do with how man it attracted and the percentage it killed

Thanks Folks.

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

pftfinsipid

SCIENCE said:

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

I wonder who first found this out.

and lots of it

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

I wonder who first found this out.

In medieval Persia, Avicenna (980–1037) provided a detailed account on diabetes mellitus in The Canon of Medicine, “describing the abnormal appetite and the collapse of sexual functions,” and he documented the sweet taste of diabetic urine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_diabetes

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

I wonder who first found this out.

Examining and tasting urine was common in Hippocratc school of medicine to detect ratios of humors.

AwesomeO said:

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

I wonder who first found this out.

Examining and tasting urine was common in Hippocratc school of medicine to detect ratios of humors.

FNDC was all weewee in those days.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

I wonder who first found this out.

the king’s urine taster

AwesomeO said:

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

i thought diabetes mellitus referred to the sweet urine anyway

I wonder who first found this out.

Examining and tasting urine was common in Hippocratc school of medicine to detect ratios of humors.

I think that job would deplete my sense of humour.

dv said:

AwesomeO said:

Examining and tasting urine was common in Hippocratc school of medicine to detect ratios of humors.

I think that job would deplete my sense of humour.

I see what you did there.