Selecting The Best Glucometer | Glucometer Buying Guide

Here we will discuss Eight Key features/things that people look for:

1. History storage Memory:

People usually look for a device that can store a history of blood sugar tested in last so many times. These devices are very helpful in terms of checking the long-term effect of current treatment. This historic data helps the doctor to decide the better treatment option.

2. Long Battery life of the device:

Being a regular user of glucometer it is important to select a rechargeable glucometer so that you never run out of battery in your device. But if you are not a regular user like Type-1 diabetes patient you may not worry about it. As normal glucometer with regular battery can give you about 800 to 1200 test results.

3. Smartphone Connectivity:

As the technology is growing some of the glucometers gives you the facility to store your data in your mobile and gives you various reminders regarding medication/insulin dose time and etc.

5. Result Simplification and analysis:

Result simplification is categorizing the result into to specific color code with respect to the severity of sugar level like red, yellow, green for high, normal, low respectively. It is a nice feature for a person with the least medical knowledge.

6. Size and Weight of Device:

Although Size and weight are not much considered while selecting Glucometer but it is important when you use to check blood glucose frequently and you need to carry it all the time. Devices with small in size and light in weight would be more useful in this case.

7. Other important features:

Some additional features that you must see that its screen must be visible at night for that some of the devices come with the backlight on the screen to overcome visibility issues at night. Some other important features are like the audio output of the result that is specific to the type of people with impaired vision.

8. Price of overall kit:

This is one of the most important factors that how much will it cost to you. That includes Glucometer cost, Test strip cost, Lancet cost. That ranges from 700 to 5000 depending upon the features offered.

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Normal Glucose level Values and brief understanding about Diabetes:

What is Diabetes? | A Brief Understanding

Have a look at the above-linked article for more details about Diabetes.

As per the global diabetes community :

Plasma Glucose Test	Normal	Prediabetes	Diabetes
Random	Below 200 mg/dl	N/A	200 mg/dl or more
Fasting	Below 100 mg/dl	100 to 125 mg/dl	126 mg/dl or more
Post-Prandial (After two hour of food)	Below 140 mg/dl	140 to 199 mg/dl	200 mg/dl or more