Blood Glucose Levels

I have not exactly gone into depth with blood glucose levels.  Now I will!  I have already covered what high and low blood sugar is called:  hyperglcemia which is when your blood sugar level is high and hypoglyciemia which is when your blood sugar is low. 


You might ask: How do you TEST your BLOOD sugar?  Well, I have something called a blood sugar kit that I use to read my blood glucose levels.  In the 'kit' comes a finger pricker, blood glucose strips, and a blood glucose meter.  The pricker is what you use to 'stab' your finger.  It is a small needle that pricks your finger so a droplet of blood can come out.  The blood glucose strips are stuck into the meter.  The strips literally suck the drop of blood off the tip of your finger and the meter reads the amount of glucose in your blood.  I have a blood sugar kit called One Touch Ultra.  This kit is linked with my insulin pump, so everytime I prick my blood sugar and the meter reads it, the number gets transmitted to my insulin pump.  This is great because I can automatically just program my insulin pump to do the amount of insulin for the correction of my high blood sugar level.  I do not have to program what my blood sugar is into the insulin pump.


If my blood sugar is say.... 214, my meter will read and it it ill be transmitted to my insulin pump.  All I have to do is press the ACT (enter) button on my insulin pump and it will pump insulin into me.