Monitoring

Keeping your blood sugar levels in their target ranges is very important. When blood sugar levels drop too low, this results in hypoglycemia, which can make you feel light-headed, nauseous and unable to concentrate.

Good diabetes care that helps the person living with diabetes avoid complications, involves regular diabetes-focused visits with their family doctor, nurse practitioner or diabetes specialist.

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.

Blood glucose monitoring can help guide people with diabetes so that they can make changes in order to keep blood glucose levels within targets.

Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is a new technology in diabetes management that reports glucose levels on a regular basis, as often as every five minutes.