While others are not aware of their condition. This can be caused by several things, because of diabetes could be due to high cholesterol, hypertension, overweight, and age.
Better you should always consult your medical doctor first and make sure everything is fine. But if you want to check whether you are affected with diabetes or not, you can do this simple test in your own home.
Before you find out whether you are affected by diabetes or not, first you need to know what the common symptoms of diabetes are.
Here are The following Common Symptoms of diabetes:
- Increased thirst
- Frequent urination
- Weight Loss
- Easy Tired
- Being Blurred vision (nearsightedness / Myopia)
- Quick Breath
- Often Feel Nausea
The things above are common symptoms and effects of diabetes, it is in because Glucose settles into the bloodstream and can spread throughout the body. Among several types of diabetes have the same general symptoms.
After checking and knowing that these symptoms come to your health, then the first thing that you should do is Checking / Testing your blood sugar, is still within the normal range or not.
Checking Glucose Using Blood Sugar Meter
With the tool, you can more easily check the level of glucose in your body, and the results are immediately found out whether your glucose levels within the normal range or not. For standard size glucose levels in the body ranges from 70-130 mg / dl. Or a maximum of less than 180 mg / dl. That size is obtained after you fasted for about 8 hours.
You can buy equipment precious blood sugar meter ranging from $ 10 to $ 80 depending on the brand and type of the device.
Here's How To Test Your Diabetes Using Blood Sugar Meter Tool:
The First Step
For best results and as accurately as possible, then before you take your blood glucose levels in the test, you are required to abstain from eating anything for - + 8 hours. After 8 hours of fasting, then you are allowed to test your blood sugar. But before you take your blood, you should do the second step.
The Second Step
Wash your hands thoroughly using warm water, because warm water serves to increase blood flow to your fingers. It aims to get enough of a blood sample.
The Third Step
Use latex handkerchief in your right hand and prepare a rather sharp instrument such as a scalpel or needle that used to draw blood from your finger.
The Fourth Step
Select one of the fingers of your left hand, my suggestion is the middle finger, that you will take the blood samples. your Fingertips will feel a little sore after its blood taken, but it was reasonable and did nothing.
The Fifth Step
Prick the end of your middle finger using a scalpel and press / sequence from top to bottom until completely bled, and put that blood sample to the test panel on Glucose card.
The Sixth Step
The sixth step is the last step of a series of tests for diabetes. After you had been completed all of the ways above, usually the result will appear after approximately 5 minutes.
The steps above could not be specific guidelines for you to check on diabetes, because usually Blood Sugar Meter tool has instructions and how to use is different according to the type and brand. But in outline all the steps above are representative of the way the test for diabetes.
The last way for checking your blood sugar is in a way to test your urine
You can check your blood sugar through Urine Test Strips. The Price of this tool ranges from $ 15. The function of this tool itself is for checking whether high blood sugar in the body or not.
In other words, this tool could not read your blood sugar for sure if your blood sugar within a normal range below 180 mg / dl or not.
But it does not matter when trying to use this tool for checking your blood sugar levels at home if coincidence there is no blood sugar meter tool.
Those are some ways Tests for Diabetics that you can try at home. Hopefully, the results of your experiments generate negative results from diabetes. In other words, you are not affected by that deadly disease.
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