Friday, November 13, 2009

Test your blood sugar..

* Test your blood sugar:
- Test your blood sugar is important for the discovery rates
Sugar in the blood and what needs to be. If low or high glucose significantly you need to change in medication and diet and plan your sports or any other diabetic and this is by physician only.

And helps your blood sugar test diabetics how to care for his health, if you feel that sugar is low or high, this test tells you whether you feel this is true or false.
* How to test blood sugar?


- The patient prick a finger with a needle injection or clean and sanitized (Lancet), to come out just a drop of blood to be placed on the bar, which is placed on the measurement of blood sugar is read through it. There are many systems of measurement (metric measure) will be available in the market that enables you to read the tape and the diabetic to make sure that he can do the test properly, and he bought the metric system easier to use and consult a doctor about how to use the metric system.


- Is measured in blood sugar than once to four times a day, usually before meals and all this is done after consulting a doctor.


- Be important to test blood sugar four times a day (before each meal and before bed at night) in the following cases:
- If a person takes insulin.
- If she is sick sugar pregnant (gestational diabetes) or intend to pregnancy.
- If the diabetic patients of another disease or recovering.
- If a person is suffering from problems of high or low blood sugar.


* How to control your diabetes:


A - These steps can be followed:
1 - Consult a competent medical authority on the best ways to test blood sugar.
2 - Using the test method selected correctly.
3 - Select the table with your doctor about test dates sugar per day.
4 - record measurements of blood sugar when tested to see the physician of these measurements.


B - The other steps can make you a medical treatment:
1 - teach you how to test blood sugar properly.
2 - The dates in which the sugar tests a day.
3 - help you understand the rates of blood sugar right for you, ask your doctor about the rates of ...... To ........ .
4 - See a doctor or a medical with you that records blood sugar measurements and the change in treatment is required.
5 - teach you how to change in diabetes medication, diet and physical activity to control the sugar.
Q: When will resort to the diabetic medical help?
- If blood sugar levels have remained above 250 mg or higher than this amount within 24 hours.
- If dropping blood sugar four or more times per week.
- If the blood sugar is too low and tried to help a person for treatment.


* Get rid of the needle test (test tool):
- The needle is disposed of correctly, and recommends that it be in a container used for this purpose does not recycled again.
- Do not use glass or plastic pots.
- Should be sealed off with duct tape.
- Get rid of them out of reach of children.

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