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Bv Laura Ruby Rappahannock News Staff Writer
New technology is making it much easier for diabetic patients to monitor their blood sugar levels and. then take action to keep it under control.
Typically, Dr. Douglas Thrasher of Piedmont Fhmily Practice explained, patients with diabetes monitor their glucose levels through fingerstick measurements, taking samples maybe three or four times a day
The problem, he said, comes when those readings don't mesh with the patient’s glycated hemoglobin test. That test, according to the American Diabetes Association. measures the amount of glucose that has ’hooked up’ with hemoglobin over a two to three month period. The association's Web site describes the test with a baseball analogy noting that it is much like a batters average for the season as opposed to a fingerstick, which might represent one at bat
Where theres a discrepancy between the batter’s average and the at-batSv footage of the game would be helpfiii in understanding what’s going #a. between innings That footage is now available through a new continuous glucose monitoring system offered by Medtronic:
The device fills in the gap» between these current methods of measurement, said Thrasher who joined the staff at Piedmont five months ago, having come from the Fauquier Medical Associates practice in Bealeton.
“Now we can witness these excursions mid adjust [the patients’! regiment,’ D*r Steven von Elten added
About the size of a quarter the monitor- is attached, painlessly, to the patient’s
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