Posted: 6/29/2007 11:39:06 AM EDT
| We have an inmate in our prison who swears he is Diabetic and needs his insulin. Everytime I have given him a blood sugar test it is between 113 and 130. I am no doctor, but I don't think that this guy is Diabetic. If he is NOT, then what high can insulin give a person? This guy was arrested for abuse of many substances. |
With numbers like that, he's not diabetic.
The ultimate high - as in meeting his maker. It would be the last substance he ever abuses. |
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What kind of insulin is he on? Who is his doctor? If he can't answer one or both of those questions, don't give him anything. Insulin will kill you if you use it recklessly. ETA: Get a doctor in on this situation. You don't want to be responsible for giving insulin to a person who is not diabetic or for depriving a diabetic person of insulin. Both could be potentially fatal. Anyway, there are multiple kinds of insulin out there. If he is a habitual drug user, is it possible that he is just trying to get a syringe? |
Normal random blood sugar is in the low to mid 100s with diabetes diagnosed at 200+ |
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My wife's type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetic. 113 to 130 may be on the high side of normal, but not crazy high. If the guy is a type 1 diabetic his blood sugar would skyrocket after eating any carbs, after a day or 2 without insulin he would start going ketonic (breath smells like acetone) and he would be spilling sugar into his urine. After that, convulsions, coma and death. Diabetics (type 1) without insulin die. Injecting insulin into a normal person will cause massive drop of blood sugar, leading to drunken behavior, coma, and death depending on dosage. BSW |