What is the appropriate blood glucose level? Knowing your blood sugar levels is very important for health and for diabetics, as the main goal is to keep the right amount of sugar circulating in the blood in check.

 The most common sugar in the body is glucose, which is the one that the body uses the most and comes from the foods we eat.

There are other sugars that we eat, such as fructose, which comes from fruits, or lactose comes from milk, all of which, when they reach the body, are converted into glucose, which the body uses as energy. This is not the only source of sugar, because the body has the ability to extract sugar from grains (such as rice, corn, etc.) that the body can use. 

What are the acceptable blood sugar levels? Blood sugar (CG) is the same thing, and it is measured in 2 ways: In the United States, this sugar is measured in milligrams per deciliter of blood (mg/dl). In the UK and Canada, they use millimoles per liter of blood (mmol/L). 

Using mmol/L, you can get mg/dl; here you take the measurement in mmol/L and multiply by 18 to get the blood sugar level in mg/dl.

 Example: If you use a blood glucose meter and the reading is 5.3 mmol/L, multiply by 18 to get 95.4 mg/dl. 5.3 mmol/L x 18 = 95.4 mg/dl What is the appropriate blood glucose level? The amount of sugar circulating in the blood (blood glucose) changes throughout the day depending on what you have eaten, what you have done, and how you are feeling.

 For a person who does not have diabetes, when you have not eaten but are sitting (and not lying down), the level should be less than 100 mg/dl (cg 5.5 mmol/L). Before eating, it should be between 70-99 mg/dl (3.9-5.5 mmol/L), and at least 2 hours after eating, it should be below 140 mg/dl (7.7 mmol/L). 

For people with diabetes, doctors recommend that you monitor your blood sugar levels as follows: Before eating, it is between 80-130 mg/dl.

After eating, blood sugar should be below 180 mg/dl. Although this is the most common method, there is another method used by doctors to determine the amount of sugar in the blood, called hemoglobin A1c or HbA1c. This method is used in testing laboratories, and it comes as a percentage (%).

For a healthy person without diabetes, it should be less than 5.7%, while for a diabetic patient, the ideal level is no more than 7%.

 For people without diabetes, insulin is responsible for maintaining blood sugar levels at the right level. For people with diabetes, because insulin function is impaired, various other medications are used, including insulin injections.

 Blood sugar levels Before eating For people without diabetes, it is 3.9-5.5 mmol/L (70-99 mg/dl). For children with diabetes: 4.5–7.2 mmol/L (80–130 mg/dl) 2 hours after eating For people without diabetes, it should be less than 7.8 mmol/L (140 mg/dl). For diabetic patients, it should be less than 10 mmol/L (180 mg/dl). Cough For people without diabetes: less than 5.7% For diabetics, 7.0% and below is ideal.