Glucose Meter – Blood Sugar Monitoring – Accusure
Introduction
Health is a very important aspect of everyone’s lives. Good health leads to a healthy life. People want to live their lives on their terms, but they should be happy and have a healthy body condition. Many unwanted diseases can hamper one’s happy life, an example of one such disease is Diabetes.
Diabetes is a chronic health condition, i.e., it lasts for a very long time. There are a few types of diabetes-
Type 1 Diabetes: Such kind of diabetes is mostly caused due to autoimmune reactions which prevent the body from making insulin. This usually occurs among teens and young people which can cause damage in later lives.
Type 2 Diabetes: This shows that your body is not accurately using insulin. It develops over the years and is mostly present in adults. This does not have any symptoms, and these people should have a regular check of their sugar levels to avoid any kind of risks.
Gestational Diabetes: These are the type of diabetes present only in pregnant women who might never have diabetes in their life. This type usually goes away after the baby is born, but there’s a risk of having diabetes in the upcoming future for both woman and her child.
What Happens?
When we eat food, it breaks down into sugar and gets released into the body’s blood flow. When the sugar level goes up, the pancreas is signaled, activated, and releases insulin. The insulin has the role of utilizing this sugar to form energy.
When the body stops producing insulin or your body isn’t producing enough insulin, then the problem of diabetes arises. Since the production of insulin is less, and there is more sugar in your blood flow, this can cause serious issues in health. So there was a need for a sugar test machine to measure the sugar levels in a body.
A wonderful invention of ACCUSURE came up Glucometer. Accusure is the number 1 trusted brand for healthcare products. This sugar check machine measures approximate levels of sugar present inside a body. With the help of this sugar monitoring machine, a person comes to know about their body well before facing any harmful or side effects.
Working
This is a one-touch glucometer that helps know the sugar levels in human blood. For using this product, one must pinch their finger with the help of the device present to get a droplet of blood and put it on the strip provided. This strip would go into the main Accusure Glucometer device, and this device will show up a number indicating the sugar level in the blood provided to the sugar monitoring machine.
- Every test strip contains enzymes called glucose oxidase. This enzyme reacts with glucose to form a kind of acid known as gluconic acid.
- Then, this gluconic acid reacts with another chemical present on the strip known as ferricyanide. This combination creates ferrocyanide for further use.
- After the creation of ferrocyanide, the (electric) current is passed through the strip, and the strip becomes capable of reading the ferrocyanide. Then the glucose meter shows a numeric value to indicate blood sugar levels.
The Accusure Glucometer’s cost starts from somewhere around Rs. 500 according to the technology and the material provided in the box.
Benefit
Regular monitoring of sugar levels would help people know and learn about their health conditions. Correct measures can be taken at the right time before anything becomes a serious issue.
Risk
Using a used finger pricker or sharing your finger pricker can be dangerous as it may transfer diseases like HIV, and hepatitis A/B, to another healthy person.
Precautions
Always wash your hands thoroughly before and after the application of this device. Never share your finger pricker device.