what is the most convenient glucose monitor for diabetes?
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I like Freestyle Flash best overall.  It uses a very small blood sample size, and the best feature is you can reapply the blood sample if you don't get it right the first time.  This can save a lot on wasted test strips.  I also like the fact that it has a backlight for testing in dark conditions.\n\nFreestyle Flash is a very small meter, with very small test strips too.  So, for the elderly (or anybody with dexterity or vision problems) it might be easier to use something with a larger display and larger strips.
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Normal blood sugar is between 4.0 -5.0 mmol/L
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I make my own.  I have been a diabetic for 28 years.  I took the log book paper my doctor gave me and made one like it on the computer. Then all I have to do is print one out when I need it.\nIt's very easy to do and pretty cheep too.  All it costs is the paper you printed it on.
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Glucose Fasting-70-110 mg/dL.(3.8-6.1 mmol/L)\nGlucose PP/R- Upto 160 mg/dL (8.8 mmol/L)\nYour second reading 1.32 does not appear correct.\nYou should also take HbA1c test every 3 or 4 months.\nEat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet. This kind of diet includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish (not canned in oil), vegetables, poultry, egg whites, and polyunsaturated oils and margarines (corn, safflower, canola, and soybean oils). Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, lard, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.\nPlease see the webpages for more details on Diabetes food.
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what kind of glucometer machine do you have?? Every machine is different. I have a One touch and I use strips and once the correct steps are followed I obtain my sugar level. No machines don't get blood into them unless inproper steps have happened.
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Need to take several blood tests for blood sugar. Start with a fasting one (12 hr fasting). Best to consult a doctor if in doubt
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On a world-wide, standard-case scale, a human's blood stream should consist of roughly 10% glucose (or a bgl of 100). But this is if everyone were the same - it's a much better idea to talk to an endochronologist with a familiarty with your children's medical history. Best of luck! (I too am a diabetic.)
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If you have the Internet you have support!\n\nMy friends that have diabetes use the following website and they are successfully controlling their diabetes using their website:\n\nThis is the future for diabetes treatment...\n\nwww.nutrihand.com\n\nI will pray for you.\n\nNever Give Up!
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they have that hemoglobin test (every three months for me) requested by the physician, that is the accurate results for testing the glucose in the body.\n\nbut any test relates to diabetics, the blood is required no matter what. it will be less pain depends on the lancing device and lancets to prick the skin. if the gluco meter required small amount of blood, you need to adjust the lancing device accordingly. some people have a thin skin layer so you need to to use the lower number, but if it is thick layer, it need to be adjusted to the higher number. that is where the pain occurs..\n\nthere are multiple brand, precision extra by medisense, freestyle by therma-sense, those are the two we have in the house. my mom carry the one touch ultra..
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http://www.ascensia.com/\n\nLook for the Contour or Breeze meters. They are available for free. I just got a check for the whole price I paid. Oh, and if your doctor writes you a prescription for the meter, you can just print out the coupon directly from their web site and take it to your pharmacy. Presto! You get the meter directly from the pharmacy without paying a dime.\n\nMany of the meters on the market are manually calibrated and are NOT accurate! There is NO FDA STANDARD for blood glucose meters, so you are responsible for checking the accuracy yourself. Just between us, the two most popular brands are only +/- 20% accurate when they are calibrated correctly. They are as much as 40% wrong if you forget to calibrate them!\n\nThere are around 5-10 meters on the market that are self-calibrating and accurate +/- 5%, which was the proposed FDA Standard that never got passed. The Bayer / Ascencia models above (Breeze and Contour) are two of the ones that meet that standard.\n\nSince you can get a good, accurate, self-calibrating meter for free, why settle for a manually calibrated meter that isn't accurate even if you do calibrate it?\n\nSo why has the FDA not published a standard for home blood glucose meters? Because as my doctor says, they are between a rock and a hard place. If they don't publish a standard, they look like they are promoting inaccurate meters. If they DO publish the standard, all of the most popular blood glucose meters currently in use will have to be pulled from the store shelves, because they are grossly inaccurate.\n\nSo rather than tell people the truth, the FDA is just waiting for the most popular brands to clean up their act and release newly designed meters. As soon as the popular companies have their meters up to standards, then they will publish the standard.\n\nMeanwhile, you and I have to read the fine print on the OneTouch and AccuCheck boxes in order to make sure we don't fool ourselves into thinking that because they are popular, that must mean that they are good.\n\nDid you know that every diabetic I've talked to in the last six years thought that there was an FDA standard for portable blood glucose meters? They were wrong; every one of them was shocked to discover that they had been trying to adjust their medication based on a meter that was lying to them.
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Go to the drugstore and ask.  They sell many types of little tiny machines that can help you keep a check on your mothers blood sugar levels.\n\nUsually if your mom is a insulin dependent diabetic medicare will pay for the machine, the test strips and all.\n\nAll you do is use a small pinlike device to puncture a spot on your mom's finger.  There is a strip that you insert in a machine, or even a machine that you place near the blood, that will read the blood sugar level.\n\nMost diabetics have them and check their sugar levels before each meal and at bedtime.\n\nThe only machine to wear is very expensive.  It is an insulin pump and I dont think your mother would qualify for that.  It delivers insulin to your body and you regulate it.  But your mom does not need this.\n\nCheck with the pharmacist.  They will lead you in the right direction and teach you how to use the machine.
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for most people, the best first line drug is glucophage.  It doees very well in controlling blood sugar and my caue somne weight loss as well. some people cant take it because it makes them nauseated or the diabets has allready wrecked their kidneys.  Avandia and Actos are also very good meds if u have the money or inurance to buy them.  I put all my dm patients on glucophage first if there are no contraindications.
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There isnt a meter, but there is a device called a glucowatch. see below for compete info. :)
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See links below, seems as easy as blood glucose testing!
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There are new treatments for diabetes that are coming out each and every day. Medical technology just keeps on advancing. \nThe FDA has just approved a new inhaled insulin that should be on the market for the public in a couple of months. I have also heard that there could be an insulin patch developed at some point in time in the future. \nThere are also advances being made in home blood sugar monitoring. There are new meters out there that are non-invasive (no needles) and give a constant reading. \n\nFor more information on the latest in treatments, etc., talk to your doctor and try using the web as a research tool. \n\nGood luck and best wishes...
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I am a diabetic.  I have tried all of the most common sweetners.  \n\nSplenda is definitly my choice.  It is the only one I have found that does not have a nasty after taste.\n\nAs another Answerer stated, it is also great for cooking and baking.
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They should give the glucometers away knowing what they charge for the test strips.\nCheck out the site below: