After suffering from diabetes, patients not only need to take hypoglycemic drugs for a long time, but also adjust their daily diet to help stabilize blood sugar. In addition, patients should monitor their blood glucose regularly, including fasting blood glucose and postprandial blood glucose, so that they can understand how well their blood sugar is being controlled.
However, many patients do not pay attention to some matters when monitoring fasting blood glucose in daily life, which will lead to errors in the blood glucose results monitored, which will be very unfavorable to the monitoring of the condition. So what do diabetic patients need to pay attention to if they want to accurately monitor their fasting blood sugar?
People with diabetes need to be aware of the following when monitoring their fasting blood glucose:
1. The fasting period needs to reach 8 hours
Many diabetic patients think that they skip breakfast after waking up in the morning and monitor their blood sugar as a result of fasting blood sugar, but this is not the case.
Diabetic patients need to fast for 8 hours before monitoring their blood sugar if they want to get an accurate fasting blood glucose value, and if they wake up in the morning, less than 8 hours before their last meal, the results obtained are inaccurate.
2. Monitor blood sugar between 6~8 in the morning
The best time to monitor fasting blood sugar is between 6~8 o'clock in the morning, not too early and not too late, so if diabetic patients want to monitor fasting blood sugar better, better and more accurately, they need to adjust the time of eating the night before, and it should be more than 8 hours between 6~8 o'clock.
3. Get enough sleep
Many diabetic patients have the habit of staying up late, often staying up late will not only make the quality of sleep worse, but also cause lack of sleep, and the condition of sleep will have a certain impact on blood sugar, if the sleep quality is very poor or lack of sleep, it will directly affect the value of the next day of fasting blood sugar.
Therefore, if you want to ensure the accuracy of fasting blood sugar, you must develop good sleep habits.
4. Take hypoglycemic drugs after getting up
Many patients are afraid of a rapid rise in blood sugar after waking up in the morning, and will take hypoglycemic drugs and then monitor blood sugar, but they do not know that after taking drugs, the drugs will quickly exert their effects to lower blood sugar, and the fasting blood sugar monitored at this time is inaccurate, so diabetic patients must first measure blood sugar when monitoring fasting blood sugar while taking drugs.
5. Measure fasting blood sugar before morning exercise
Many diabetic patients have the habit of morning exercise in the morning, because the time to get up early in the morning is relatively early, they usually choose to monitor blood sugar after morning exercise, which is wrong, and the fasting blood sugar results obtained are also inaccurate, because blood sugar will drop after morning exercise, so when monitoring fasting blood sugar, you must choose before morning exercise.
It can be seen that if diabetic patients want to get accurate fasting blood glucose results, they should pay attention to the precautions mentioned above and avoid these wrong practices, so as to get correct fasting blood sugar and better monitor the changes in their condition.
After the patient correctly monitors the fasting blood glucose, if the fasting blood sugar fluctuates greatly or is in a relatively high state for a long time, the patient needs to seek medical attention in time and change the treatment plan under the guidance of a professional doctor.
In addition, patients should pay attention to the monitoring of postprandial blood glucose every day, and the changes in postprandial blood sugar can also understand the efficacy of the drug, and if the blood sugar is not well controlled, the dosage of the drug needs to be adjusted in time.