Blood Glucose Monitoring at Home

When living with Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes, managing the condition is best done by regularly monitoring blood glucose levels. Blood glucose monitors of different types can now make this possible in the comfort of your home. By doing so one can keep the numbers in check by altering the diet, by taking medications or insulin or by being physically active. This information can also be useful for the doctor to make the necessary and timely changes to the diabetes treatment plan if required.

With a regular blood glucose monitoring regime at home, diabetics can keep their blood sugar levels stable and also relay information to concerned doctors thereby averting the possibility of serious health complications. When not treated on time, high blood sugar levels have found to cause long term life-threatening health issues like heart attack, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, and amputation, nerve damage, vision problems, poor blood flow. On the other hand, low blood sugar levels are also cause for concern by leading to confusion, weakness, dizziness, jitters. sweating or even seizures and coma. Thus, it is always important to keep the blood glucose levels within the prescribed target range as best as possible. This target range is calculated by the doctor-based age, type of diabetes, the overall health, and other factors.

Checking the sugar levels with blood glucose monitors while at home or elsewhere can allow for quick response to high blood sugar (hyperglycemia) or low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). The frequency and when to check the blood sugar levels will be prescribed by the doctor. Technology has advanced so much making blood glucose monitors fast, effective, easy-to-use and relatively pain-free. The monitors are also portable, small in size, discreet, mostly battery operated, functional and can be linked to computers or phones. There are even wearable blood glucose monitors that diabetics can find very helpful. The blood glucose monitors for home use allows for the results to be saved and passed on to the doctor via app on smartphones or through computers.

Having an accurate record of the blood glucose levels over a period of time can be an important part of successful diabetes management. Most blood glucose monitors come up with results in under a minute or the more advanced ones in 5 second’s time. In order to ensure the accuracy of the results most manufacturers of these glucose monitors recommend testing the monitors regularly after a period of time. This can be done at least once every month.

For those people suffering from problems like retinopathy or other eye disorders which is an offshoot of diabetes, there are even audible blood glucose monitors that give verbal instructions and verbal test results to their user. These types of blood glucose monitors can also speak in other languages besides English. Another benefit of investing in a blood glucose monitor is that some models can also check for the presence of ketones and this can be useful for people with type 1 diabetes or for those who are susceptible to ketoacidosis.

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