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The glycemia is the level of sugar (glucose) that exists in the blood. In normal conditions, it ranges between 75 and 175 mg/dl, although this is lightly a variable as the laboratory that does the measurement.
In patients in whom it is important to know the glucose levels in blood, normally the diabetics, there exist several ways of realizing the measurements. The one that gives more information about the level of blood sugar at the moment of doing the measurement, is the determination of the glycemia in blood.
This determination can be done in laboratory, but it is slightly practical for the daily control and for the adjustment of the insulin, therefore there exists an alternative method, easy to use and very trustworthy, that consists of the use of a strip it reactivates, a small measuring machine that is called reflectómetro or meter, and a blood drop of the patient.
Normally there is used capillary blood obtained by means of a small prick in the egg yolk of a finger. The diabetic patients have to be carried out usually it is measured one or several times a day. It is advisable to note down the results in a notebook, and to give them to the doctor in every consultation, so that this one could do to himself an idea of the control of the patient between visit and visit.
HOW ARE THEY USED
- 1st. - The strip is mounted on the reflectómetro as the instructions of every manufacturer.
- 2nd. - Blood is obtained: it is necessary to wash its hands with warm water and soap, and to dry them well. The puncture area has to be well dry before puncturing. The egg yolk of the finger narrows close to the puncture area during approximately three seconds, and it pricks itself with a lancet or small needle that comes with the strips. It narrows gently until a blood drop goes out.
- 3rd. - The blood is gathered in the strip. This one must put herself on the blood drop, which will rise automatically for the interior of the strip up to filling it. The strip must remain well full, by what if it is not like that it must be placed again on the drop. The blood must not be gathered, when it is done in two times, with any more than fifteen seconds of interval because it can induce to error as.
The result will appear on the screen of the device when it has finished the measurement. According to the models, it usually warns with a whistle that it has already stopped measuring and that the result that it presents is already definitive.
The reliability is much superponible to the obtained one by means of analysis in a standard clinical laboratory, whenever certain precautions keep.
PRECAUTIONS OF USO
- Not to carry the glycemia determinations out to low temperatures to +14°C or Superiors to +40°C not to any more than 85 % of relative moisture.
- Always to close the pipe with the stopper. If the strips pipe is left opened you reactivate during a long time, the strips you reactivate they can be unusable.
- Not to store the packing to low temperatures to +2°C or superior to +32 °C.
- To observe the expiry date.
POSSIBLE INTERFERENCES WITH THE RESULT
- values of bilirrubina> 20 mg/dL (342 mol/L), for example: jaundice.
- triglicéridos (you show lipémicas in vitro)> 5000 mg/dL (57 mmol/L).
- values of the hematocrito< 20 % ó > 65 % with glycemia concentrations< 200 mg/dL (11,1 mmol/L) o valores del hematocrito , < 20 % ó > 55 % with glycemia concentrations> 200 mg/dL (11,1 mmol/L).
- values of uric acid> 10 mg/dL (0,595 mmol/L) and values of glycemia< 70 mg/dL (3,9 mmol/L), valores de ácido úrico > 12 mg/dL (0,666 mmol/L) and values of glycemia 70-140 mg/dL (3,9 - 7,8 mmol/L) or values of uric acid> 16 mg/dL (0,952 mmol/L) and values of glycemia> 140 mg/dL (7,8 mmol/L).
- Acetaminofén> 8 mg/dL (0.53 mmol/L).
- galactosa> 8 mg/dL (0,56 mmol/L) and Maltosa> 16 mg/dL (0,89 mmol/L).
- the solutions for the dialysis peritoneal that they contain icodextrina alter the values of glycemia, increasing them.
- a test of absorption of xilosa.
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