How can you manage your diabetes?

How can you manage your diabetes?

The main goals of diabetes management are to:

  • carefully control blood glucose
  • decrease the risks of low and high blood glucose levels, and
  • control cardiovascular disease risk factors to help slow or possibly prevent diabetes-related health problems.


Here are five tips to help manage your diabetes:

  1. Test your blood glucose as recommended by your healthcare professional.
  2. Take your medicine as prescribed by the doctor, be it tablets (pills) or injectable medicines like insulin.
  3. Make healthy food choices.
  5. Learn all you can about your diabetes.
