Sister Parminder Rihal, Diabetes Specialist Nurse explains how often people with Diabetes should be checking their blood sugar. She relates to type 1 and type 2 Diabetes and talks about testing around meal times.
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So type 1 diabetes, we normally tell them to do before eating pre-meals, before breakfast, before lunch, before dinner and bedtime, or if they feel unwell. So that's for type 1 diabetes. type 2 diabetes, depending upon their treatment, what they are on. If they are on insulin like four injections a day, it will be the same pre-meal and bedtime. If they are just on metformin, generally GPs don't give them test-trip to test if they are relying on their HbA1c, which is three to six months, they do it. So if they are on the glycoside, we would recommend that they need to test them at glucose level because glycoside can cause hypo. If they are just on metformin GLP-1, they don't need to test that much time, you know, like maybe once a day or every other day. So depending upon their type 2 is depending upon their treatment.
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