After diabetes is diagnosed, patients need to start long-term medication.
Because so far, whether it is type 1 or type 2 diabetes, there is no clinical cure for the disease, in order to reduce the patient's future complications of the disease;
Therefore, blood glucose can only be stabilized by taking drugs and injecting insulin if necessary, and patients should also have regular blood glucose tests.
Usually, in order to fully understand the control of blood glucose and adjust the individual diet, the doctor will recommend that the patient have a blood glucose measuring instrument at home.
However, household blood glucose testing instruments can be inaccurate if used improperly.
Many patients fall into the misconceptions about the use of blood glucose measuring instruments, especially the following four are the most common:
1. Do not drink drugs before examination: Many patients blindly believe that blood glucose monitoring after stopping drugs is the most accurate data.
But everyone ignores that the purpose of checking blood glucose is to fully understand the control of blood sugar.
If blood glucose monitoring is carried out after discontinuation of the drug, the results obtained in this case can not effectively reflect the condition and may also affect blood glucose control.
Therefore, no matter when to screen blood glucose, patients should take the drug on time according to the doctor's advice;
2. Deliberately adjust diet: In addition to stopping the drug, some patients have chosen the self-deceptive examination method, that is, in order to make the glycemic index look normal, deliberately diet excessively on the day before the examination and do not eat foods containing nutrients.
As everyone knows, the glycemic index tested in this case may be lower, but it does not represent the real situation of blood glucose control.
Therefore, in the clinical view, in order to truly understand blood glucose, the day before the examination, whether it is medication or meals, should be maintained at a certain level, and it is necessary to ensure good sleep at night;
3. Impromptu blood glucose measurement: In clinical view, diabetic patients actually have requirements for the detection time of blood glucose, generally two time periods, namely early in the morning on an empty stomach and two hours after a meal.
The time to check fasting blood glucose is preferably at 6-8 o'clock in the morning, and the patient should ensure that the previous day's dinner and test intervals are about 8-12 hours.
The postprandial blood glucose test should be calculated from the first bite of staple food in accordance with the usual diet and medication habits.
At the same time, patients should also avoid excessive eating, strenuous exercise, smoking and alcohol abuse, and drinking irritating beverages;
4. Squeeze your fingers when collecting blood: Before the blood collection begins, the patient needs to use soap and water to completely clean the hands, and dry the hands with dry napkins and towels.
The point to emphasize here is that if the patient uses a finger blood collection test, the finger that is ready to be collected should be rubbed repeatedly so that the finger has sufficient blood function.
During the blood collection process, the fingers should not be squeezed excessively, because during the squeezing process, the tissue fluid will enter the diluted blood, which will affect the blood glucose test results.
Finally, it should be emphasized that diabetics must not think that there is no worries about self-testing blood glucose at home and controlling blood sugar well.
In fact, in clinical view, in addition to self-testing blood glucose at home, diabetics should go to the outpatient clinic regularly for follow-up examination according to the doctor's recommendation;
In particular, it is necessary to test glycosylated hemoglobin, which is the most important evaluation index of long-term blood glucose control, and also an important basis for clinical decisions on whether to adjust the medication treatment plan, so outpatient review must not be ignored.