What are Normal Blood Glucose Levels?

What are Normal Blood Glucose Levels?

The amount of glucose (“sugar”, measured in mg/dL) in your blood changes throughout the day and night. Your levels will change depending upon when, what and how much you have eaten, and whether or not you have exercised.

Normal Blood Sugars

• A normal fasting (no food for eight hours) blood sugar level is between 70 and 99 mg/dL
• A normal blood sugar level two hours after eating is less than 140 mg/dL

Diabetes is diagnosed by any one of the following:

1. Two consecutive fasting blood glucose tests that are equal to or greater than 126 mg/dL
2. Any random blood glucose that is greater than 200 mg/dL
3. An A1c test that is equal to or greater than 6.5 percent. A1c is an easy blood test that gives a three month average of blood sugars
4. A two-hour oral glucose tolerance test with any value over 200 mg/dL

Sometimes you may have symptoms of fatigue, excessive urination or thirst, or unplanned weight loss. However, often people have no symptoms of high blood glucose and find a diabetes diagnosis surprising.

Pre-diabetes

My doctor says I have pre-diabetes. What is that?

• You are at high risk of developing diabetes. You can prevent or delay diabetes by increasing physical activity, eating healthful foods, and maintaining or losing weight
• Pre-diabetes is also called impaired fasting glucose (IFG)

Pre-diabetes is diagnosed by any one of the following:

• A fasting blood glucose in between 100-125 mg/dL
• An A1c between 5.7 - 6.4 percent
• Any value between 140 mg/dL and 199 mg/dL during a two-hour 75g oral glucose tolerance test

 
Sources: https://www.virginiamason.org/WhatareNormalBloodGlucoseLevels

How to test blood sugar

 How to test blood sugar

To test your blood sugar level, collect your blood glucose meter, a test strip and lancing device.

See how to prepare the meter and test strip, lance your finger and get a reading using the ACCU-CHEK Aviva Plus system. Watch the video.

Or follow these steps:

1. Wash and dry your hands—using warm water may help the blood flow.¹
2. Turn on the meter and prepare a test strip as outlined in your owner's booklet.
3. Choose your spot—don't check from the same finger all the time.¹
4. Follow the manufacturer's instructions to prepare the lancing device and get a drop of blood from the side of your fingertip or other approved site.²
5. Check your blood sugar by touching and holding the test strip opening to the drop until it has absorbed enough blood to begin the test.
6. View your test result and take the proper steps if your blood sugar is too high or low, based on your healthcare professionals' recommendations.
7. Discard the used lancet properly.
8. Record the results in a logbook, hold them in the meter's memory or download to a computer so you can review and analyze them later.

Benefits of Trigona (Kelulut Honey and Propolis)

Trigona honey have long been introduced only to discover this Trigona honey goodness. What is Trigona  bees? This is a family of honey bees also, but it is smaller and did not sting. Unlike most bees, Trogona (kelulut) not harmful  to humans and the honey produced is useful in medicine and health.  Like bees, Trigona also form complex social colonies. MARDI in Malaysia has conducted research on this species and found Trigona bees in Malaysia has many species of Trigona bees. In Malaysia , there are 30 over species Trigona bees.

This Trigona (Kelulut) bees produce honey and propolis  rich in antioxidants. Slightly different with ordinary honey bees, honey from the Kelulut bees is  light in color, it taste is not like the other honey,  its not as sweet, sweet  flavor it more earthly. Sometimes it can taste like some wood. Because the nest is near to the group, like in a tree stump and difference from the normal honey bee which up high in the tree.

Propolis can also function as anti-fungal, anti fungus, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory that is commonly used as active ingredients in cosmetics, creams and tablets. Trigona (Kelulut) honey is still in the research and potential commercialization.

 

Antioxidants have many functions, especially in the cancer problem. Among the reported illnesses cured through traditional treatment methods is the use of propolis are :

 -diabetes mellifluous

- stroke

- hepatitis

- cancer

- hypertension

- kidney stones

- and HIV / AIDS.

Based on studies conducted under the supervision of Assoc. Prof Dr. Amrah Siti Sulaiman, from USM (University of Science Malaysia) state that Trigona (kelulut) honey could reduce glucose levels for diabetics and effective prevent cancer and gout.

Generally speaking, for its nutritional value and benefit, said its far better than the normal honey (bee) and its price is more expensive than the Honey Bee.

 

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