A continuous glucose monitoring system, or CGM for short, is a smaller clinical framework that constantly screens your glucose levels in pretty much ongoing (there's typically a five-minute span between readings).

 

To utilize a CGM, you embed a little sensor onto your mid-region (or arm), with a small plastic cylinder known as a cannula infiltrating the top layer of skin. A cement fix holds the sensor set up, permitting it to take glucose readings in interstitial liquid (the liquid that encompasses cells in the body) for the duration of the day and night. For the most part, the sensors must be supplanted each 10 to 14 days.

 

A little, reusable transmitter associated with the sensor permits the framework to send continuous readings remotely to a screen gadget that shows your blood glucose information. A few frameworks accompany a devoted screen, and some presently show the data by means of a cell phone application, so you don't have to haul an additional a gadget around with you.

 

Beside the steady stream of information, most CGMs can send cautions disclosing to you when your glucose levels are ascending too high or dropping excessively low. You can likewise set the ready boundaries and redo how you're told.

 

It's anything but a misrepresentation of the truth to say that CGMs have upset diabetes care. Dissimilar to a customary fingerstick blood glucose meter (BGM), which gives simply a solitary glucose perusing, CGM frameworks give consistent, unique glucose data at regular intervals. That compares to approximately 288 readings in a day.