Diabetes Glucose Level: Tips & Info

By Tjahyo Sukmono

Source of energy of the body is the body’s main sugar or serum glucose level. Glucose in your blood was manufactured from the food that you eat, and cells get their energy from it.

When someone diagnosed diabetes, the most common tests that depends highly on are glucose level test. Two major glucose level tests to sure a person really has diabetes that can do are:

The Fasting Blood Glucose Level - This is a complete fast. Someone really diabetic when test result shows a value beyond 140 mg/dl and after two tests, result is same.

The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test - when doing this test, the patient is asked to avoid doing from drinking water for at least 10 hours before the actual test.

First, blood is extracted from the patient and then he is asked to drink glucose cola. This high-sugar drink frequently has 75 grams of glucose in it (for your info, pregnant women, 100 grams is required).

By reading glucose level, doctor will be able to tell if he has diabetes or not.

These tests are generally performed to check for the blood’s current glucose level, but also can to check if the person has diabetes or not.

One time you are diagnosed with diabetes, your main goal should be to keep your blood glucose at a normal level.

Use glucose meter, this is one of best way to monitor your blood glucose level. This is the so-called SMBG or self-monitoring of blood glucose. You can help maintaining the normal level of your blood sugar too aside to monitor your blood sugar.

These are some basic tips that could supply as your guideline in maintaining a normal blood sugar level:

1. Make sure that you take your medications and stick to your diet program. Discuss to your doctor about these things. If you can insist on some foods that you really want and are nutritious and allowable, then go for it.

2. Avoid alcohol beverages as well, stop consumption of cigarettes and beverages that have caffeine like coffee, tea and some soft drinks. Because these are most harmful substance can greatly affect your glucose level.

3. Get exercise such as walking. Caution: Do not engage in any form of exercise program without consulting your doctor first.

4. Learn to relax. If you can, enroll in meditation classes, then you can do some meditations at home or listen to calming music. And, of course, the best form of relaxation is – sleep. Take the arranged 8 hours of sleep for adults.

5. Limit your ingestion of salt. Remember that your blood sugar is an essential part of your system.