At Diabetic Drug Store you will find healthy diabetic food, hard to find sugar free candy, and medical alert jewelry for diabetes care. An assortment of sugar free cookies, sugar free cakes, sugar free chocolates - everything for the diabetic diet plan - even a Blood Glucose Monitor!
Ignoring the use of blood glucose monitot may put the life of Diabetic patients in danger. Blood glucose monitor can be a good alternative for the pain of pricking process of monitoring blood sugar level. It is the best way to keep the record of your sugar level constant.
Blood testing is primarily used to screen for, diagnose or monitor patients with diabetes, a metabolic condition in which blood glucose levels are too high because the body cannot produce enough insulin in the pancreas. Following a heart attack or other serious illness, fasting glucose levels will be temporarily high. Diabetic Drug Store offers many products for home blood testing, from Accucheck to One Touch Glucometers to other Blood Glucose Monitors.
Why blood testing?
To determine whether or not your blood glucose level is within normal ranges; to screen for, diagnose, and monitor diabetes, pre-diabetes, and hypoglycemia (low blood glucose)
When to get tested?
As part of a yearly physical and when you have symptoms suggesting hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) or hypoglycemia, or if you are pregnant; if you are diabetic, up to several times a day to monitor glucose levels.
Sample required?
A blood sample drawn from a vein in your arm, or for a self check, a drop of blood from your finger.
Blood testing is available for home use and is the test of choice to monitor blood glucose levels in diabetics. Advances in blood testing have produced changes in blood glucose meters an the amount of blood required for the blood test. Once only able to test using a hanging drop of blood from the finger, diabetic can test their blood from the finger, forearm and thigh now. These advances in blood testing reduce the pain associated in daily diabetes testing and complications from repeated finger pricks. Use our blood glucose monitors to make sure your blood sugar levels are in a safe range.
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