Regularly monitoring your glucose levels can help you take better care of your diabetes. It helps you learn how food, activity levels, stress, medicine, and insulin affect your glucose levels.
Why is glucose monitoring important?
6 in 10 Singaporeans with Diabetes have
poor glucose control.205
Why does glucose levels differ in a person with diabetes?
In a person without diabetes:
In a person with diabetes:
- Body cells gets "fuel" (blood glucose) it needs to function.
- Blood glucose levels are normal and does not pile up in the bloodstream.
If poorly controlled, diabetes can lead to serious complications .
Start monitoring your glucose and improve your lifestyle in various ways!
Food: In an era of information overload, continuous glucose monitoring can help you tackle the "To eat or not to eat" dilemma by monitoring changes in your glucose levels according to the changes in your meal components214 and using that information to drive your decision.
Exercise: While exercise is necessary, over-exercise or even not doing enough, can lead to counter effects on diabetes management. Continuous glucose monitoring can help you understand if the exercise routine is suitable for you by predicting an overall direction in which your glucose levels are going. Thereby alerting you if your levels are going down due to over-exercise (hypoglycaemia)203.
Medications: A regular account of your glucose levels also helps your doctor get a wide range of information to work with, while understanding if the prescribed medications are working for you. If any medication requires alterations or replacement, they need not wait for an extended period of time203.
With disorders that involve strict glucose management, there is no one solution that fits all, since no two individuals react to lifestyle interventions in the exact same way. Every individual and every physiology are unique203.
When living with diabetes, if there is one gospel truth you need to believe in, then it's your own glucose levels.
So when in doubt, just #AskYourGlucose and put an end to your dilemmas.
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