Anyone who has diabetes or has cared for someone with diabetes knows that testing your sugar is essential to dealing with diabetes. But just pricking yourself once in a while is not sufficient enough to really get a picture of your sugar levels, because diabetes is about control and management over the long haul.
The key issue with diabetes is management. And you have to be able to manage and control your diabetes over the years in order to delay diabetes complications. It is almost like investing. You have to commit to it and do it consistently over years in order to see the benefit. So checking your sugar once in a while really doesn’t get it. In order to really get a good idea as to how well you are controlling your sugar you need to be able to test your sugar over a period of months. This will give you a better gauge as to how well you are controlling it. The A1c test is currently the gold standard for testing your sugar over a period of time. So what is the A1C test?
The A1c or glycated hemoglobin is a test that measures your sugar over a period of about three months. It does this by measuring the glucose that bonds to your hemoglobin. You can measure the glucose in your blood over the life of the red blood cell, which is about three months. The typical A1c number that is deemed a satisfactory number is below 7. I have been told that some doctors want the number to be closer to 6.
You should have your A1c tested every three months to ensure that your diabetes management is working. And if not, make the necessary changes for it to work. Remember…Get Healthy! Your Life Depends On It!!
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This post was written by admin on December 18, 2008
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