Glucose Monitoring Meters

Q. Are all Blood Glucose Monitoring meters are the same?

A. No, all meters are not made with the same method and all have different features. Ask your doctor before you buy any such device.

Q. How to check the accuracy?

A. Make sure that you use the control solution which comes along with your meter, it is used to test the meter’s accuracy before checking your blood glucose.

Q. How much Meters and strips costs? Meters are usually free, but it’s you need to buy strips. You will get a blood glucose meter from your hospital medical store.

Q. Does this Monitoring works?

If you have any doubts about the trust issues of Glucose Monitoring Meters, you can ask your doctor about it. Your recommended monitoring frequency will change as per the level of control and the medications you are taking to treat diabetes.

Insulin Injections

Q. Does taking insulin injections hurt?

A. No, it doesn’t really hurt as most needles are small and thin which causes little or no pain.

Q. Do people with type 2 diabetes do need insulin?

A. You might be needed to add insulin to your body to control your blood glucose level.

Q. Where insulin should be stored? Keeping insulin at room temperature will not hurt much but using insulin right out of the refrigerator is more likely to hurt. 

Q. How quickly your insulin will work?

A. If you just did or about to work out, keep in mind that the absorption rate increase if the muscles of the injection area are been exercised shortly before or after a shot.

Kidneys

Q. Does High blood glucose damages the function of kidneys?

Yes! High blood glucose does damage the kidney. If this continues, then the kidneys won’t perform its function properly of filtering the blood properly.

Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia

Q. What is the difference between Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia?

A. The word hyper means high and hypo means low which indicates that hyperglycemia is a condition where there is too much glucose in the blood and hypoglycemia means is a condition where it is too little.

Q.  Out of Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia which patients need insulin? The patient having hyperglycemia has a high glucose level so to reduce this level insulin is given and if the patient is having Hypoglycemia then by giving insulin the glucose level will fall down drastically and can lead to various health issues such as weakness.

Q. What are the Symptoms of Hypoglycemia and Hyperglycemia?

Symptoms of Hypoglycemia

•       A pounding heart

•       Feeling confused

•       Feeling hungry

•       Feeling weak

•       Nervousness or irritability

•       Sweating and shaking

Symptoms of Hyperglycemia

•       A headache

•       Blurry vision

•       Thirst

•       Frequent urination

•       Dry skin