A diabetic person must pay attention & take extra good care of his body to keep a healthy well being. Self-monitoring provides you the benefit of having the ability to bring any perilous situation in order.

With proper management, you really can figure out how to control your Blood Sugar levels.

So how can you perform the first step – test your blood sugar

Get organized
Before you begin testing your blood sugar levels:

• Talk with your physician or family doctor about when & how often you should test your blood sugar levels. Record your testing times
• Try and link testing your blood sugar levels with your other activities of the day.
• Keep your testing equipment together to test quickly if needed.
• Do check your equipment before you do each test.
• Almost all manufacturers of these testing monitors recommend using the sugar control solution made by them the first time you use that meter or to check the accuracy of your meter’s results. It’s always recommended to follow the directions that came with your meter for using the control solution properly.
• At regular intervals, look after your supplies properly.

Do that test

Some diabetic people either test their blood sugar rarely or not at all.

So should you?

Yes, the more often you test your glucose levels, the more information you can deduce as to whether your treatment is working or not.

Follow these steps when testing your blood sugar:

1. Wash your hands with warm water & dry them well. Keep’em clean.
2. Put a clean needle in the lancet device. If you don’t know what a lancet device is, it’s a pen-sized holder for the lancet. It holds and positions the lancet and controls how deeply the lancet goes into your skin.
3. Take a strip from your bottle of testing strips. Put the lid back on the bottle immediately, you don’t want to moisturize the other strips.
4. Get your blood glucose meter ready. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions for your specific meter.
5. Use the lancet device to stick the side of your fingertip with the lancet. Some devices allow blood testing on other parts of the body, such as the forearm, leg, or hand. Make sure you know where your device can be used.
6. Put a drop of blood on the correct spot of the test strip.
7. Stop the bleeding with a small cotton ball by applying pressure to it.
8. Wait for the results. Most modern BG meters take only a few seconds to give you the results.

Record the results

This is important.

The information you get after the test lets you and your doctor know how your meds, food, and activity are affecting your blood sugar. Be sure to take them with you on each visit to your doctor.

To record them you can either:

• Make a blood sugar log in a notebook or
• Use the memory storage feature of your meter and other note-taking features.