Home blood glucose monitoring--the key to good control.
Home blood glucose monitoring is one of the corner-stones in the management of type I diabetes. This paper summarizes the aims and effects of this method and will discuss the pros and cons with simple patient-adapted meters and visual judgement of the blood glucose strip. It is underlined that a thorough handling of the strip is essential for the result whatever method used. The problem solving capacity of home blood glucose monitoring in unstable diabetes is illustrated.
D000328:Adult; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D012648:Self Care / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
D001786:Blood Glucose