Free Diabetic Meters – So Many Places Can Help You

free diabetic meters
Free Diabetic Meters

Diabetes seems to be plaguing people each and every day but for many they cannot afford the supplies that it takes to maintain diabetes. Did you know that you can get free diabetic meters?

To diabetics, there are some key essentials to maintaining and keeping an accurate eye on diabetes, diabetic monitors are one of them. Being a diabetic can get really costly especially in these days and times when so many people are without jobs and insurance.

Free diabetic meters are available by many different companies and places out there in order to help diabetics maintain their diabetes in a healthy way. Free diabetic monitors can be received through your state or local health department, the American Association for Diabetes and other diabetes association’s across the globe.

These companies such as the American Association for Diabetes purchase diabetic monitors at wholesale price or through donations that outsiders make to their organizations through fundraising, bake sales, etc. to help others who cannot afford diabetic equipment otherwise.

Diabetic monitors also come through as donations when someone who has diabetes may have passed away, their loved ones may donate their used equipment instead of discarding it in order to help others who are less fortunate. A lot of people know diabetics and just think about what will happen to their equipment when they pass, why not donate it?

So if you or someone you know has lost their job, is having financial hardship or doesn’t have insurance and has just found out that they are diabetic there are places out there that you can go to in order to get free diabetic monitors, testing strips, medications and other types of equipment. Don’t think that your diabetes has to go left unmaintained due to funding when there are places out there to help you with free diabetic meters and supplies.

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A 1 C Meter

a1c meter
a1c meter

A1c testing has been, until recently, done strictly by a visit to the physician every few months and having a blood sample sent in for testing, now it is possible to get fast and accurate test results at home with an at home a1c meter. Practically anyone who has diabetes is very familiar with testing their blood sugar, sometimes many times each day, just to track and trend their levels and try to keep them as close to normal as possible.

Though many diabetics routinely visit their doctors for A1C testing they are not sure what the test is all about. The A1C test is all about tracking the level of blood glucose over an extended time. The A1C test and the A1C meter that is used at home are designed to read the levels of glycosolated hemoglobin in the blood.

Once glucose binds to red blood cells and is transported throughout the body the hemoglobin or red blood cells, are said to be glycosolated and never return to the non-glycosolated state for the reminder of their life. Since red blood cells have a life span of around 120 days, when the doctor had the A1C test performed it is a very good indication of what the predominant trend in blood sugar levels have been for the past 120 days.

The home A1C meter, like the metrika A1C now+, is not designed to be used in the same fashion as the glucometer which so many people are familiar with. The A1C meter which is designed to be used at home is generally sold as kits with the meter and two tests. The test kits are generally not reusable and it is not possible to buy refill kits, but with the capability to test twice for around $30 makes the kits attractive and very useful, especially for tracking the glucose level over a period of time.

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Do you Know the Type 2 Diabetes Statistics?

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Do you know the type 2 diabetes statistics? Statistic show that diabetes and diabetes type 2 affect 25.8 million people in the United States only, making it one of the worlds (besides AIDs) biggest health concerns.

18 million are currently diagnosed while another 7 million are still yet to be diagnosed. It is also the seventh leading form of death for Americans. The vast amounts of diabetes is due to the high sugar amounts in today’s food and medical advances that keep the defective diabetes gene in the population.

Some statistics about type 2 diabetes state that 215000 people under 20 will be diagnosed with type one or two diabetes. Type 2 diabetes causes (and is the leading cause) kidney failure, blindness, and lower limb numbness. People over 65 are 25% of the United States diabetic patients, meaning that more people develop diabetes at a later state.

Pre-diabetes is also increasing because many of the younger generation have high blood sugar but not enough to really matter or effect the body. Gestational Diabetes occurs when a woman is pregnant and can be dangerous to both child and mother. Type 2 diabetes statistics show that two out of ten mothers will develop this during their pregnancy. Also five to ten percent of these women will keep the diabetes after the pregnancy. These women also have an increased chance of getting diabetes in the next ten years after the pregnancy.

The amount of money spent in the United States on diabetic supplies and medications annually is 174 billion dollars, and will only increase as more people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes diets can help by reducing the amounts of diabetes in the United States. See if you’re at risk for developing type 2 diabetes by looking up type 2 diabetes statistics and talking to your doctor.

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American Diabetes Organization

American Diabetes Organization

What is the American Diabetes Organization? The American Diabetes Organization, is an organization that has been put into place to aid and help the patients, loved ones, friends or family members of have been recently been diagnosed find support, answers, questions or help in funding so that the patient can have all the necessary resources needs to remain healthy.

The American Diabetes Organization is not the only organization out there that has been started and put into place to help patients, family members and loved ones all over the nation get the resources that they need in order to have a healthy lifestyle.

The American Heart Association is a great organization that was started to help heart patients have all the available resources to get proper treatment, understand what is going on and help them to even find funding for their heart problems in order to remain safe, healthy and on top of things in order to live a long, productive life.

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