Blood Glucose Testing

Blood Glucose measures

• Salt

• Iron

• Sugar

• Potassium

What is Type 1 Diabetes?

• The body’s ability to increase fat in blood

• The body’s ability high salt in blood

• body’s inability to produce insulin

• The body’s ability to over produce iron

What is Type 2 Diabetes?

• high cholesterol results

• result of eating too much eating to many lollies

• the body unable to produce enough insulin

• sedentary lifestyle

What is gestational diabetes?

• Diabetes in children

• Diabetes in animals

• Impaired glucose in pregnant women

• impaired glucose in mice

What is Hyperglycemia?

• low blood glucose level

• High glucose levels in the blood >10

• high cholesterol in the blood

• infection in the blood

What is Hypoglycemia?

• Low iron levels

• low blood glucose readings under 4

• Dehydration

• feeling dizzy

Where do you take you blood sample from?

• vein

• head

• Neck

• finger

Where do you insert the test strip?

• At insertion site front up

• Upside down

• Don’t insert it at all

• Throw the strip away

When should you Test your BGL

• Before breakfast

• before lunch or dinner

• before lunch or dinner

• all of the above

What Are the Target Ranges for a stable BGL?

• 15-22

• 4-8

• 2-7

• No target ranges