Problem Background
In this time and age, lifestyle diseases and health conditions are a bigger menace than the untreatable and unpreventable ailments the world knows. Unfortunately, these conditions, which people have attracted to themselves is causing massive deaths of individuals worldwide. Most of these are brought about by people’s eating habits, drug abuse, and laziness. More precisely, diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, obesity, depression, stroke, and cirrhosis amongst others are because of alcohol use, smoking, and abuse of particular foodstuff and lack of exercise. The good news is the observation of certain lifestyle processes might save a person from ever contacting some of these …show more content…
By 2015, it was estimated that about 415 million had diabetes globally, and the second type of diabetes accounted for 90% of these cases. Sadly enough, 1.5 to 5.0 million people succumbed to diabetes each year from 2012 to 2015. Its cost of treatment is another issue in many nations since it requires expensive process and drugs. In America alone about, 245 billion dollars were used in 2012 to cater for diabetes treatment and prevention strategies.
To control diabetes, a person needs to maintain a healthy diet to avoid being overweight. Another major factor in preventing and managing diabetes is exercising and avoiding drug abuse such as tobacco and alcohol. There is also the insulin intake, which takes care of Type 1DM; unfortunately, these injections cannot be stopped. The more good news, however, is that generally, diabetes is treatable, but this has to start by taking the necessary tests.
In this tutorial, the systematic guidance of how to detect blood glucose at home is explained. The major sections of this tutorial are the component of the blood glucose sugar, which describes the device and its sub-sections. The next section is the actual guidance in succinct yet clear details on how to perform the test, and finally there is a section about troubleshooting the device in case of minor or major flaws.
The Components of a Blood Glucose