My last blog entry addressed the importance of using home blood glucose monitoring strategically.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has been around for 40 years.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) has been around for 40 years.

Lifestyle choices or health behaviours, as they are called now, can make a significant difference to life expectancy for all of us, but even more so for a person living with diabetes.

Good diabetes care that helps the person living with diabetes avoid complications, involves regular “diabetes – focused” visits with their family doctor, nurse practitioner or diabetes specialist.

People often ask what it means when their meter flashes “test ketones”.

Low blood sugars (hypoglycemia) can be, at most, life threatening and, at the very least, an annoyance. In general, they’re pretty disruptive to your life! Lows that happen at night, when you are asleep, can be especially frightening.