How to monitor blood glucose? There are 3 ways-laboratory, glucometer, continuous glucose monitoring system.

What is the “right” blood glucose for you? It depends on your age, duration of diabetes, medicines you are taking, presence of complications and overall risk for hypoglycaemia.

Why should we monitor Blood glucose? Blood glucose monitoring is not a report card, it is a powerful tool to help adjust factors regulating glucose like food, activity, and medications. It enables us to control glucose levels in blood better, helps us in preventing and knowing about low glucose levels. It ultimately is the way to prevent heart disease and kidney disease in future. YOU have to power to control YOUR life, well at least to some extent!!

“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”-Friedrich Nietzsche