Diabetic Seniors

To control your diabetes, there’s one number you absolutely have to know – your blood sugar reading. Taking your blood sugar reading informs you if your blood sugar is too high, too low or just right. There are two common tests to perform blood sugar reading — daily finger-stick tests and the hemoglobin A1c test. [...]

Home monitoring of your blood sugar is one of the most important things you can do to take charge of your diabetes. And knowing how to properly use a diabetes strip to test your blood is the first step in accurate home monitoring. Here’s how: 1) Use the right strips. Make sure that the diabetes [...]

The Diabetic’s life can, at times seem like one test after the other—some taking a few seconds, some a few hours and others covering a 3 month’s span of activity. The Oral Glucose Tolerance Test is one of the tests that take about 1 work day. While not always performed, due to its cost (sometimes [...]

Carefully monitoring the blood’s glucose levels is a way that a diabetic and their doctor can establish and carry out a plan for better living without the symptoms of diabetes. A regularly performed diabetes blood test provides valuable, necessary information to help reach this goal. There are two common forms of a diabetes blood test: [...]

Since there are a variety of health concerns associated with Diabetes, it is wise to take whatever precautions available to prevent their occurrence. Aside from the daily blood glucose testing, checking your blood pressure on a regular basis, and seeing your doctor, an additional test for maintaining good Diabetes health is the Hemoglobin A1C test [...]