WHY TEST YOUR BLOOD SUGAR LEVEL
There's no cure for diabetes, but you can manage - or even prevent - the condition. Taking responsibility for your diabetes will enable you to manage your diabetes more effectively. Regular monitoring of blood glucose is critical part of diabetes care because it helps:
- To evaluate whether or not you are meeting your overall treatment objectives
- To measure how your diabetes medication is impacting your blood glucose level
- To know when your blood sugar levels vacillate and in which direction
- To know how your diet & exercise impact your blood sugar
- To recognize how other factors such as illness & stress affect your blood sugar
Record your glucometer readings and review them frequently to see the impact of food, activity and stress on your blood sugar levels.
COMPLICATION OF DIABETES
Diabetes is a condition, which affects the body’s ability to produce or use insulin, a hormone that allows your body to turn glucose into energy. Diabetes can be managed effectively, but its potential complications include:
Heart Disease
People with diabetes are at a higher risk of developing heart related disorders like heart attacks, high blood pressure & stroke.
Kidney Damage
The kidneys contain millions of tiny blood vessel clusters that filter waste from your blood. Diabetes can damage this delicate filtering system.
Eye Complications
Diabetes can damage the blood vessels of retina potentially leading to blindness. Diabetes also increases the risk of cataract and glaucoma.
Nerve Damage
Persistent high blood sugar can damage delicate nerve fibers, causing diabetic neuropathy. This most often affects nerves in hands & feet.
HOW TO USE
ALERE™ G1 GLUCOMETER
Insert a Test Strip
Obtain a Blood Drop
Apply the Blood Sample
Test Results Appear in 5 seconds
Remove the Test Strip
BUY ALERE™ G1 GLUCOMETER TODAY
Monitor your blood sugar regularly. Choose Alere G1:
- Get Lab-like accuracy with 99.9% pure Gold electrodes in test strips
- Auto-coded for your convenience
- Automatic Strip Ejector for hygiene and infection prevention
- 500 test memory; results in 5 sec
- Widest measuring range (10-900mg/dL)
- One device can maintain up to 5 unique patient records
- Small sample size 0.5µl
