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What is blood glucose?
Blood glucose, or blood sugar, is the main sugar found in your blood. It is your body's primary source of energy. It comes from the food you eat. Your body breaks down most of that food into glucose and releases it into your bloodstream. When your blood glucose goes up, it signals your pancreas to release insulin. Insulin is a hormone that helps the glucose get into your cells to be used for energy.
What is diabetes?Diabetes is a disease in which your blood glucose levels are too high. When you have diabetes, your body doesn't make enough insulin, can't use it as well as it should, or both. Too much glucose stays in your blood and doesn't reach your cells. Over time, having too much glucose in your blood can cause serious health problems (diabetes complications). So if you have diabetes, it's important to keep your blood glucose levels within your target range.What are blood glucose targets?
If you have diabetes, your blood glucose target is the range you try to reach as much as possible. The typical targets are:
- Before a meal: 80 to 130 mg/dL
- Two hours after the start of a meal: Less than 180 mg/dL
Your blood glucose targets may be different, depending on your age, any additional health problems you have, and other factors. Talk with your health care team about the best target range for you.
When and how should I check my blood glucose?If you have diabetes, you'll likely need to check your blood glucose every day to make sure that your blood glucose numbers are in your target range. Some people may need to check their blood glucose several times a day. Ask your health care team how often you need to check it.
The most common way to check your blood glucose level at home is with a blood glucose meter. A blood glucose meter measures the amount of glucose in a small sample of blood, usually from your fingertip.
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is another way to check your glucose levels. Most CGM systems use a tiny sensor that is inserted under your skin. The sensor measures your glucose level every few minutes. It can show changes in your glucose level throughout the day and night. A CGM system is especially useful for people who take insulin and have problems with low blood glucose.
Your provider will also check your blood glucose with a blood test called an A1C. It checks your average blood glucose level over the past three months. People with diabetes usually have an A1C test at least twice a year. But you may need the test more often if you aren't meeting your diabetes treatment goals.
What happens if my blood glucose level becomes too high?High blood glucose is called hyperglycemia. Symptoms that your blood glucose levels may be too high include:
- Feeling thirsty
- Feeling tired or weak
- Headaches
- Urinating (peeing) often
- Blurred vision
If you often have high blood glucose levels or symptoms of high blood glucose, talk with your health care team. You may need a change in your diabetes meal plan, physical activity plan, or diabetes medicines.
High blood glucose may also be caused by other conditions that can affect insulin or glucose levels in your blood. These conditions include problems with your pancreas or adrenal glands.
What happens if my blood glucose level becomes low for me?Hypoglycemia, also called low blood glucose, happens when your blood glucose level drops below what is healthy for you. For many people with diabetes, this means a blood glucose reading lower than 70 mg/dL. Your number might be different, so check with your health care team to find out what blood glucose level is low for you.
Symptoms of low blood glucose tend to come on quickly. The symptoms can be different for everyone, but they may include:
- Shaking
- Sweating
- Nervousness or anxiety
- Irritability or confusion
- Dizziness
- Hunger
Low blood glucose levels can be common in people with type 1 diabetes and people with type 2 diabetes who take certain diabetes medicines. If you think you may have low blood glucose, check your level, even if you don't have symptoms. Low blood glucose can be dangerous and should be treated as soon as possible.
Although it's rare, you can still get low blood glucose without having diabetes. The causes can include conditions such as liver disease, kidney disease, and hormone deficiencies (lack of certain hormones). Some medicines, such as certain heart medicines and antibiotics, can also cause it. See your provider to find out the cause of your low blood glucose and how to treat it.
NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Home Remedies for Range
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Felter's Materia Medica on Range
...ix. Sig. One teaspoonful every 1 to 3 hours.) Specific Indications.Atony dependent upon nervous derangements from reproductive disturbances, with headache, insomnia, melancholia, and convulsive tend......with extreme sensitiveness to touch or pressure. It also relieves mental aberrations arising from derangement of the reproductive organs. Like cimicifuga it is useful in atonic indigestion of the nerv...1
The dried juice of the leaves of several species of Aloe: (1) Aloe Perryi, Baker; (2) Aloe vera, Linné; (3) Aloe ferox, Miller. (Nat. Ord.... / ...d nauseous, half of which is soluble in water; powder, deep brown; aqueous solution yellowish. (2) Orange to black-brown masses, waxy, not aromatic; more than half soluble in water; powder, deep red-b...1
The root of Asclepias tuberosa, Linné (Nat. Ord.... / ...eae). United States and Canada. Dose, 5 to 60 grains. Common Names: Pleurisy Root, Butterfly Weed, Orange Swallow-wort. Principal Constituents.Resins and a glucoside. Preparation.Specific Medicine...1
...of Citrus Aurantium amara, Linné (Nat. Ord. Rutaceae). Dose, 5 to 30 grains. Common Names: Bitter Orange Peel (of Bitter Orange, Bigarade Orange, Seville Orange). Principal Constituents. Hesperidin......he bitter principle; and a volatile oil. Preparation.Tinctura Aurantii Amara. Tincture of Bitter Orange Peel. Dose, 1/2 to 2 fluidrachms. Therapy.Stimulant, carminative and tonic, but used chiefly...1
...ripe, fresh fruit of Citrus Aurantium. sinensis, Gallesio (Nat. Ord. Rutaceae) Common Names: Sweet Orange Peel (of Sweet Orange, Portugal Orange, China Orange). Principal Constituents.Oil of orange ......ge). Principal Constituents.Oil of orange (Oleum Aurantii); other constituents same as in Bitter Orange Peel. (Orange Juice [from the pulp of the fruit] contains citric acid, sugar and mucilage.) Pr......tains citric acid, sugar and mucilage.) Preparation. Tinctura Aurantii Dulcis, Tincture of Sweet Orange Peel. Dose, 1 fluidrachm. This agent is used in the preparation of Syrupus Aurantii or Syrup o...1
The (1) dried root and the (2) dried leaves and tops of Atropa Belladonna, Linné (Nat. Ord. Solanaceae). Europe and Central Asia; also... / ...elladonna and the liniment are extremely useful in local inflammations and swellings, having a wide range of efficiency. Thus they may be applied to painful and swollen joints, forming abscesses, inci...1
A gum-resin obtained from Garcinia Hanburii, Hooker filius (Nat. Ord. Guttiferae). Siam,... / ...n-China, and Cambodia. Dose, 1 to 3 grains. Common Names: Gamboge, Camboge. Description.Grayish, orange-brown, cylindical fragments, without odor and acrid to the taste. In powder it is light yellow... / ...be given, but repeated small doses in pills or in alkaline solutions, until results are obtained. Alkalies best counteract its drastic effects.1
The dried flowering tops of the female plant of Cannabis sativa, Linné, or the variety indica, Lamarck (Nat. Ord. Cannabinaceae). Asia, East... / ...erence of thought, and a perverted judgment. His imagination carries him into ludicrous ideas and strange actions, he has notions of grandeur and greatness, and moments are exaggerated into æons of t... / ...of the urino-genital tract and relieves pain. For the first condition it is invaluable in more or less painful conditions in which opium see1
The bark of the root of Chionanthus virginicus, Linné. (Nat. Ord. Oleaceae.) United States from Pennsylvania southward. Dose, 5 to 30... / ...erness on strong pressure, the feces are light in color and float upon water, the urine scanty and orange-tinted, there are occasional hectic flushes, and sometimes diarrhea, with frothy, yeast-like s... / ...never reach the true diabetic state. There is good reason to believe that the prolonged use of chionanthus will be of much benefit in such cases.1
The leaves or whole plant of Chimaphila umbellata (Linné, Nuttall. (Nat. Ord. Ericaceae.) North temperate region of the Northern Hemispheres, and... / ...on and Therapy.Chimaphila is both an antiseptic diuretic and a positive alterative. It does not derange but seems to favor digestion, and has a good influence upon the processes of nutrition. In chr... / ...the disappearance of sugar in glycosuria. Chimaphila is a neglected remedy that may well take the place of other agents of questionable safety.1
...to 60 drops. 4. Tinctura Cinchonae Composita, Compound Tincture of Cinchona. (Red Cinchona, Bitter Orange Peel, Serpentaria.) A modern substitute for and sometimes wrongly called Huxham's Tincture o......e latter is more prompt and direct and more easily administered. Cinchona is useful in functional derangements of the stomach, improving digestion, and imparting vigor and tone to the nervous and musc...1
The stigmas of Crocus sativa, Linné (Nat. Ord. Irideae). Asia Minor; much cultivated in Europe. Common Name: Saffron. Principal Constituents.Contains the glucoside... / ...r's Saffron (Carthamus tinctorius), which see under Carthamus. It may be used to color tinctures orange yellow, but it is too expensive for that purpose.1
The rhizome of Dioscorea villosa, Linné (Nat. Ord. Dioscoreaceae). A vine found throughout the United States. Dose, 5 to 60 grains. Common Names:... / ... contractions; skin and conjunctivae yellow, with nausea and colicky pain; tongue coated, stomach deranged, and paroxysmal pain in the abdomen; twisting or boring pain, radiating from the umbilical re... / ...does not dissolve calculi. Usually, while there is much tenderness in cases requiring dioscorea, the distress is gradually relieved by pressure.1
The dried bark of Rhamnus Frangula, Linné (Nat. Ord. Rhamnaceae). Collected at least one year before being used. A shrub of wet situations in... / ...0 to 60 drops. 2. Elixir Frangula, Elixir of Frangula (Fluidextract of Frangula, 1 part; Elixir of Orange, 4 parts). Dose, 1 to 2 fluidrachms. Action and Therapy.Fresh frangula bark causes emeto-cat...1
An extract prepared from the leaves and twigs of Ourouparia Gambir (Hunter), Baillon (Nat. Ord. Rubiaceae). Sumatra, Ceylon, and countries... / ...reparations.1. Trochisci Gambir, Troches of Gambir (Gambir about 1 grain, Sugar, Tragacanth, and Orange-flower Water). 2. Tinctura Gambir Composita, Compound Tincture of Gambir (Gambir and Cinnamon)... / ...castor oil is advised, to be followed by the gambir alone, or with camphorated tincture of opium. It is seldom used in modern Eclectic practice.1
Physician's Materia Medica on Range
Rhizome and roots of IRIs VERSICOLOR, Lin. Cholagogue, cath artic, diuretic, alterativc. Regarded by many as the most eflicient of vegetable alteratives, with a wide range of usefulness.2
The leaves and flowering tops of EUPATORIU M PERFOLIATUM, Lin. Tonic, diaphoretic, febrifuge. in large doses laxative and nauseant or emetic. The remedy deserves more attention than it has received, its range of use being essentially the same as that of Matricaria.2
Alkaloid derived from OPIUM. Narcotic, sedative, hypnotic. Produces less derangement of the secretions than morphine, and less liable to be followed by disagreeable after effects. Espexially useful in cough mixtures. Dose, 0.004 to 0.06 Grm. (1-16 to 1 gr.).2
An admirable general tonic having a wide range of usefulness in de bilitated conditions. Its active constituents are in each fluidrachm; Calcium Hypophosphite,1/2 gr.; Potassium Hypophosphite, 1 gr.; Manganese Hypophosphite, 1/4 gr.; Ferric Hypophosphite, 1/4 gr.; Quinine Hypophosphite, 1-16 gr.; Strychnine Hypophospbite, 1-80 gr.; Pancreatin Saccharated, 1 gr.; Pepsin Saccharated, 1 1/2 grs. The combination has therefore, 1st the specific action bf the hypo phosphites as restoratives, supplying2
The root of HYDRANGEA ARBORESCENs, Lin. Diuretic. antilithic; in large doses cathartic. Prescribed with good results in renal colic, especially when due to deposits of phosphates.2
The leaves of ARCTOSTAPHYLOs GLAUCA, Lindl. Astringent diuretic, anti-lithic, having the same range of use as Uva Ursi. Fluid Extract Manzanita. Dose, 1.3 to 4.0 c. c. (20 to 60 M).2
The rind of the fruit of CITRUS VULGARIS, Risso; A mild tonic and carminative, chiefly used as a flavoring agent.2
The rind of the fruit of CITRUS AURANTIUM. Lin. Aromatic, stomachic. carminative; used chiefly as a flavor.2
An extract from the PANCREATIC gland of an animal, generally the hog. It has the power of... / ... albuminoids, of converting starch into sugar and of emulsifying fats. 1t has therefore a far wider range of usefulness than pepsin. It is prescribed as an aid to intestinal digestion, but is preferab... / ...p2
The leaves of CHIMAPHILA CORYMBOSA, Pursh. Diuretic. astringent. alterative, tonic, having the same range of use as Uva Ursi.2
References
2) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.