When to call your health care provider

During an illness, you may need to contact your health care provider. Call your provider if you:

• have most of your blood glucose readings more than 250 mg/dL for two days in a row
• have blood glucose levels falling below 70 mg/dL more than once during your illness, and you have symptoms of low blood glucose (hypoglycemia)
• are vomiting or have persistent diarrhea
• feel you want or need to change your insulin doses during an illness

Go to the emergency center if you:

• have acute abdominal pain
• have moderate to large ketones in your urine (for people with type 1 diabetes)
• have difficulty breathing (a symptom of too many ketones in the blood)

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