Blood Glucose Levels
How well you control your blood sugar levels determines the success of any diabetes treatment. Regular testing of blood sugar is something people with diabetes must do. In order to find out the blood sugar levels of a person and whether he or she has diabetes, a blood sugar level chart is used. Normal blood sugar chart outlines the normal blood sugar ranges for a diabetic and non-diabetic person.
Blood Glucose levels can be check with the help of Biochemistry Analyzer or Glucose monitoring hand held device.
There are three types of Blood tests can be performed according to the time duration of meal intake-
Fasting blood sugar
- Patient haven?t eaten anything for at least eight hours prior to the test.
Two hour post prandial blood sugar
- Exactly after two hours of a meal, two-hour postprandial blood sugar measures blood glucose.
- Diabetes isn?t diagnosed with this test. Instead, this test shows whether or not a diabetic person is consuming the right insulin amount with meals.
Random blood sugar
- Regardless of when the patient last ate, random blood sugar measures blood glucose. Throughout the day, blood sugar levels do not vary widely in healthy people. Therefore, random testing is useful.