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Last year, a national guideline-setting group abruptly withdrew a controversial diabetes standard it adopted in 2006 that called for aggressive control of blood sugar, or glucose. The change came after a large federal study indicated that lowering glucose too quickly or too much in some patients could harm or even kill them.

When I read the above in an article appearing in the health section of the New York Times website, I was stunned. It also made sense! My doctor insisted on such tight control over my daughter’s type 1 diabetes I refused to follow his advice knowing it would be her life on the line. Specifically, I was instructed to correct her anytime she was over 180. That might sound reasonable, except he specifically said to correct her even one hour after eating when she would still have insulin board working in her system. Had I done this she would have crashed to the floor every single time.

Perhaps her former endo was one of the doctors paid to promote these guidelines!

Source: New York Times. Diabetes Case Shows Pitfalls of Treatment Rules. August 18, 2009.