when to monitor blood glucose level?

Question

mother impaired glucose tolerance asked to monitor blood glucose will reading be higher if she has taken high carbohydrates or large quantity or sweets and choclates

Answer 1

To get accurate blood glucose readings, you need to take them at least 3-4x per day for the first few weeks of monitoring, then 1-2x day once you've established a pattern. I used to have a good excel spreadsheet for this, but it's easy to setup. For the columns, you have:

Wakeup; 2 hrs after breakfast; before lunch; 2 hours after lunch, before dinner; 2 hours after dinner, and bedtime.

For the rows, I'd have each day.

For the first few weeks to a month, depending on the doctor's requirements, fill in 3-4 of those cells each day. The next day, fill in 3-4 more, but don't overlap all of them - try to vary them a bit from day to day, so that over the course of a month you have a fairly even distribution across all seven columns. As you add more data, you can have an 8th column for daily averages, and, across the top or bottom, averages for each of the columns. The averages will tell you, long term, whether the blood sugar is going up or down, overall.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

The 3 main food groups are carbohydrate (starch, fruit, milk, yoghurt), protein (meat, fish, chicken, eggs, cheese) and fat (oil, margarine, avocado, nuts, seeds). the carbohydrates affect the blood glucose levels the most i.e. almost all of the carbohydrate you eat breaks down into glucose and gets absorbed stratight away into the blood stream. Therefore you don't have to avoid carbohydrates but you need to eat small portions at each meal and snack to prevent the blood glucose level from spiking. You should avoid sweets, gums, colddrinks, fruit juice, chocolates. You should follow a low-fat diet (i.e spread margarine thinly, avoid deep fried foods, limit your intake of red meat, avoid the skin on the chicken, eat low fat or fat free dairy products) and eat controlled portions of starch (rice, pasta, potatoes, bread, cereal, crackers) and fruit spread out over the day.
Only half the amount of protein that you eat breaks down into glucose and gets absrobed over about 4 hours into the bloodstream. Therefore protein does not increase the blood glucose levels as much as the carbohydrates do. So include more protein but as long as they are kept lean and low fat. It is important to include a small amount of healthy fat to each meal as fat slows down the absorption of the carbohydrate into the bloodstream. too much fat however causes the blood glucose level to rise.

Answer 5

if she takes high carbohydrates surely her glucose level will read higher but we cannot depend only to her diet it needs medical test,what if something will come out..