Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Is there a way to monitor blood sugars without pricking yourself?


Unfortunately, all the monitors which do not utilize pricking suck. The gold standard today is to prick yourself and measure the sugar in blood. Testing for blood sugar is not difficult. At the moment, every single blood glucose monitoring kit available does require a sample of blood. There are many portable kits available today for home use. To test blood sugar levels, one needs a few items including a blood sugar monitor, test strips, a lancet and alcohol swabs. The majority of blood sugar monitors available today are lightweight and portable. Some blood sugar monitors also have fancy storage facilities like tracking time, date of each test and can store your sugar level data. Some of the current devices also come with flash/zip drives so that the information can be transferred to your PC.

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