How do i know if my diabetes is under control?
You make tests. There are three kinds of tests you can make in your own home. We'll list them the way some mail order catalogs list their products: good, better, best. Good urine testing For years this has been the way most diabetics have checked on how well they were managing their diabetes. You test the amount of sugar in your urine. If you have no sugar, then the assumption is that your blood sugar has remained normal, because if it hadn't, sugar would have spilled over into your urine. If there is sugar, the assumption is that your blood sugar was above normal at some time during the previous hours. The test shows the amount of sugar and this is supposed to indicate how high your blood sugar was and may still be. Urine testing for insulin dependent diabetics is usually recommended four times a day before meals and at bedtime. Other diabetics can often get by on one test two hours after the largest meal of the day. There are three products you can use for urine tes...