Diabetes Blood Sugar

People with diabetes maintain their blood sugar as near to normal as possible. Keeping blood glucose in your target range can help prevent or delay the start of diabetes complications such as nerve, kidney, eye,or blood vessel damage.

When you learned you had diabetes, you and your doctor worked out a diabetes care plan. The plan aims to balance the foods you eat with your exercise and, possibly, diabetes pills or insulin. You can do two types of checks to monitor how your plan is working. These are blood glucose checks and urine ketone checks. Blood glucose monitoring is the main tool you have to check your diabetes plan.