My husband was supposed to be fasting...and ate?!
Question: ...We are going for bloodwork at 8:30am for diabstes, cholesterol, a bunch of things. Anyway, he's supposed to fast for 12 hours, and it was going well until he woke up and 'forgot' because he was hungry. He ate a 'piece' of a chocolate bar at 6:30am. He says 'no biggie'...he'll take the test anyway. I think he should reschedule his (I'm still going for mine).
How badly do you think a bite of a chocolate bar will affect his test?
Answers: ...We are going for bloodwork at 8:30am for diabstes, cholesterol, a bunch of things. Anyway, he's supposed to fast for 12 hours, and it was going well until he woke up and 'forgot' because he was hungry. He ate a 'piece' of a chocolate bar at 6:30am. He says 'no biggie'...he'll take the test anyway. I think he should reschedule his (I'm still going for mine).
How badly do you think a bite of a chocolate bar will affect his test?
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It is a major biggie bad. It will make the test completely invaluable.
He should reschedule his blood work and next time nothing but water in that 12 hours. That little bit of chocolate could change his readings.
Reschedule... if he is that immature that he would 'forget' something as important as NOT EATING... especially CHOCOLATE... I can see why he has diabetes...
Quite a bit. He needs to re-schedule the test for another day. It takes up to 2 hours for the body to clear any food from the GI tract and absorption takes place for up to 8 hours. That chocolate bar is sugar and fat. Sugar is broken down and absorbed quickly (a spike in blood sugar) and fat is broken down slowly and absorbed slowly (a small prolonged rise in blood sugar). It will ruin the test and also cholesterol if he's getting that down too.
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Its a big thing, think of it you eat and how long does it take? Its about a good few hours and am not talking 2 hours more than that.
It will effect the test and tell your hubbie from me he did a big bobo. Wink. I have forgot a few times too
reschedule.
It's not about "how badly a bite of a chocolate bar will affect his test": it will spoil it totally, the results he gets will not be the real ones.