How Can Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Help in Effective Managing Diabetes
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Kya aapne aaj apna CGM reading check kiya?
Imagine that you are on your way to workout at the gym, and your CGM sensor (Continuous Glucose Monitoring sensor) has been applied to your arm. Just before starting your exercise routine, the CGM alerts you that your blood sugar levels are dropping.
Seeing this, you decide to eat a small snack to prevent low blood sugar during the workout. This proactive step was possible because the CGM provided real-time data and an alert about the rapid change in glucose levels, preventing a potential low-blood sugar episode.
But is JUST looking at CGM readings all that helpful? What is the significance of these numbers, and why should you monitor your blood sugar levels?
080694 50746How Can Monitoring Glucose Levels with CGM Help You?
For people with diabetes, keeping a close eye on blood sugar levels is not just about numbers; it’s about maintaining the ideal blood sugar levels. Blood sugar monitoring through CGM is essential for –
1. Making the Right Diet Choices
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) provides instant feedback on your glucose levels, helping you see how different foods affect your glucose. This helps you make informed decisions about which foods are good for you and which aren’t.
Understanding these patterns enables you to make smart choices about your diet and eating timings. You’ll learn the best times to eat and the right balance of vegetables, whole grains, proteins, and healthy fats.
Building on this, our nutrition coaches use your Personalized Glycemic Response (PGR) data to further customize your diet plan. They tailor recommendations to meet your specific health needs, improving your ability to manage or even prevent diabetes effectively.
2. Helping you in Stress Management
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems can help manage stress by showing how it affects your glucose levels. When you’re stressed, your blood sugar can rise, and the CGM captures this in real-time.
This helps your Success Coach at Fitterfly, who focuses on mental wellness, to see the impact of stress on your glucose levels.
They can suggest simple techniques like mindfulness, deep breathing, yoga, or exercise to reduce your stress. These methods not only help lower stress but also stabilize your blood sugar.
3. Empowering you to understand Fitness
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems are really useful for understanding how exercise affects your blood sugar levels.
This data from CGM helps you tailor your exercise routines and meal planning to keep your blood sugar stable, reducing the risk of low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) during and after workouts.
At Fitterfly, our Physio Coaches, who are experts in fitness and pain management, use your CGM data to fine-tune your exercise plans. This ensures that your blood sugar levels stay stable, making your workouts safer and boosting your confidence in managing diabetes effectively
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4. Easy to Use
Reducing the need for frequent finger-prick tests, CGMs make diabetes management less disruptive to daily life. Improves quality of life, especially for those who are very uncomfortable with pricks.
5. Making appropriate Medication Adjustment
Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) systems help manage diabetes more effectively by allowing doctors and family members to monitor blood sugar remotely. This is very helpful for children and elderly people who might need extra support.
To add to this, the data from the CGM lets doctors adjust medications like OHAs or insulin accurately, ensuring the best control of blood sugar levels. And with tech advancement happening by the day, it’s getting easier to connect CGM to various types of health devices.
6. Understanding your Blood Sugar Patterns to Prevent Complications
CGM aids in recognizing patterns in glucose levels, predicting rises and falls, thus preventing serious health issues like heart disease, kidney failure, and vision problems stemming from erratic blood sugar fluctuations.
How We at Fitterfly Can Help You?
At Fitterfly, we help you manage diabetes better by combining the detailed insights from Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) with a plan that covers your whole health — from what you eat and how you exercise to how you feel.
This way, we make sure you’re not just tracking your diabetes but actually living better with it. Our goal is to give you the freedom to enjoy life more, with better health and less worry about diabetes.
For more information, call 0806945074. You can also learn more by checking your blood sugar levels by enrolling in Fitterfly’s Diabetes Prime Program.
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This blog provides general information for educational and informational purposes only and shouldn't be seen as professional advice.
