Blood glucose monitoring

Checking your A1C as well as your blood glucose levels are things you’ll do when you have diabetes.

Most recently you may have heard that performing blood sugar (glucose) monitoring is a waste of money. It is important to understand that this is not a correct statement for most people with diabetes.

My last blog entry addressed the importance of using home blood glucose monitoring strategically.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has been around for 40 years.

Having diabetes often means checking your blood glucose daily—sometime multiple times—which can be a hassle. But advances in blood glucose monitoring are helping make the process not only easier and more efficient, but pretty remarkable too.

Despite all the advances in recent years, the fact remains that diabetes management is not a perfect science. Your may follow the diabetes healthcare recommendations to the letter and then suddenly,out of the blue, a wild swing occurs.

If you have diabetes, it is important to know what the A1C (sometimes called hemoglobin A1C) test is, and how the diabetes team uses the A1C.