The need of a blood sugar test

Blood sugar testing or self-monitoring blood glucose gives the patient useful information on managing diabetes. It also helps with:

• Judging how close you are to reaching your desired treatment goals

• Understanding the roles that diet and exercise play in normalizing blood sugar levels

• Understanding how illness, stress and other factors affect blood sugar levels

• Monitoring how diabetes medication has an effect on blood sugar levels

• Identifying low or high blood sugar levels

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