One of the important indicators of blood is the content of sugar in it, since from this sometimes even the whole life depends.
If a person feels well, and he does not have any complaints about his health, then most of the time he does not give an analysis of sugar. But if you feel a constant weakness, thirst, dizziness starts to appear and you always want to go to the toilet, you should definitely donate blood to glucose, because it is she, and not sugar that is contained in human blood and is the cause of poor health.
Modern medical equipment is increasingly becoming available for home use. Now you can check your blood for sugar at home, you just need to know the norm in order to decipher the received data on the glucometer. Even having received the result from the laboratory, this information can be useful to you.
The rules for taking the sugar test
To get the correct result, you must follow these rules:
- For a glucometer, the blood should be taken from the finger, and in the laboratory - from the vein. The second method is used only to establish a diagnosis, when controlling the sugar level, it is recommended to apply the first one.
- A blood test for sugar is given in the morning, on an empty stomach, normally after the last meal should pass at least 8-10 hours. A healthy person should not be on the eve of eating a lot of sweet and alcohol, get nervous and come after a night's work.
- Do not change your diet before the analysis, then the result will be implausible. The menu should remain normal, excluding only "wrong" food.
- Do not take the test during an acute infectious disease and during pregnancy, as these factors will affect the result, and if it is necessary to pass it, the laboratory assistant should be warned so that they take it into account when decoding.
In order to check the blood sugar level in your home, you need to know what norms of this indicator you need to focus on, because diabetics and healthy people have different.
What is the norm of blood sugar in women and men?
There is no difference within the limits of the norm for blood sugar readings, depending on the sex of the person who surrenders, they can differ only in different ways of delivery:
- from the finger - from 3.3 to 5.5 mmol;
- from the vein - from 4.0 to 6.1 moles.
These figures show how much glucose should be contained per 1 liter of blood.
If you fulfilled all of the above conditions before you passed the test and obtained a result ranging from 5.6 to 6.6 mmol, then most likely this is a symptom of a violation of glucose uptake, which may lead to an even greater increase. With a content of 6.7 mmol, we are already talking about diabetes.
When giving blood after eating, the result will be the norm to 7.8 mmol.
The norm of the index of blood sugar in diabetes
This diagnosis is not made immediately upon detection of excess of the norm by several tenths, but only if the following results are obtained:
- on an empty stomach - over 6.1 mole;
- during the day - more than 11.1 moles.
To establish the final diagnosis, only once again the analysis is done, because sometimes an increased level of sugar can fall, then this will be only a signal to think about your health, while the body is able to cope with such a quantity of glucose.
If already diagnosed with diabetes mellitus is confirmed, then for people under the age of 60 already have such standards:
- on an empty stomach - from 3.9 to 6.6 moles;
- during the day - from 3.9 to 6.6 moles.
And after 60 years:
- on an empty stomach - from 3.9 to 8 moles;
- during the day - from 3.9 to 10 moles.
Focusing on the presented norms of blood glucose, a person can prevent an increase without using medicines.