British Diabetes Association

Ways Of Seeing How Diabetes Is Controlled
By Groshan Fabiola
There are two ways that doctors use to see how diabetes in a person is controlled. One way to see how diabetes is controlled is by measuring the levels of glucose in your blood. The second way in assessing the control of diabetes is by measuring glycohemoglobin. Both these two diabetes methods have good and bad points, but taken together they can give a pretty good picture of the state that your diabetes is at. This is the reason why most of the doctors will use both of these diabetes control methods.

First we shall talk about the first method of controlling diabetes, that is by measuring the glucose levels in your blood, to see how you are doing when diabetes is concerned. This diabetes assessing method can be also done in two ways. The first method is taking a sample of blood at any time of the day and measuring the levels of glucose, to see in what state you are with your diabetes. The second way is to avoid drinking or eating anything for almost eight hours, for the second diabetes method to work. In a normal person that does not suffer from diabetes, the sugar levels in his/ her blood will return to normal
in about three hours after they have eaten. In the persons that suffer from diabetes, this will be done in a higher time.

The second used method in controlling the state of diabetes that you are in is the

glycosylated measurement. This test of diabetes can be done in a lab or in your doctor' s office. Unfortunately, unlike the other diabetes control method, this can not be done in the privacy of your own home. The doctors measure the glycosylated levels because they are linked very well with the overall sugar levels that you have in your blood, thus telling you about your diabetes. If the person who suffers from diabetes will take this control test, he/ she will know for sure how the diabetes works. This diabetes control test should be
taken once in four months if you have type 1 diabetes. If you have the second type of diabetes, the test that controls the state of your diabetes can be taken less often.

Studies have shown that the good blod sugar control in diabetes, decreases the risks that one might be exposed to of diabetes complications.

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