You can easily check your blood glucose yourself. You will require a blood glucose meter which can easily be bought from a pharmacy.

The target levels are:

1. Fasting: <5.6  mmol/L
2. Two hours after eating a meal: <7.8 mmol/L

 Check your diabetes in four steps:

Urine testing is done to screen for, help diagnose and/or monitor several diseases and conditions such as kidney disorders to urinary tract infections.

When do you need to test?

Urine testing is recommended when you have symptoms, such as abdominal pain, back pain, frequent or painful urination. Testing can also be done as a general screen and as part of pregnancy check-up.

Urine Collection

Use only clean and sterile urine specimen containers.

Examination of the urine with test strips should be carried out as soon as possible within 2 hours.

Test Parameters

What is being tested?

• Specific Gravity: checks for the concentration ability of kidneys
• pH: urinary tract infections, acidosis or ketoacidosis, starvation, diarrhoea
• Leukocytes: Kidneys, urine and bacterial infections
• Nitrate: Urinary tract infections, cystitis, pyelonephritis
• Protein: Diabetes mellitus, fasting, vomiting, inborn errors of metabolism, ketoacidosis
• Glucose: Diabetes mellitus, renal/alimentary glycosuria, glycosuria in renal damage
• Ketones: Diabetes mellitus, fasting vomiting, ketoacidosis
• Urobilinogen: Cirrhosis of the liver, viral hepatitis, haemolytic anaemia
• Bilirubin: Cirrhosis of liver, intra- and extra hepatic, obstructive jaundice, hepatocellular jaundice
• Blood: urinary stone formation, glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, renal infarction, renal cysts, gouty kidneys

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To assess the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and to monitor treatment.

When to get tested?

When no risk factors present:

1. Adults: every four to six years
2. Youths: Once between the ages of 9 and 11 and again between the ages 17 and 21

When risk factors are present: at regular intervals.

What is the sample required?

A small blood sample from a finger prick is needed.

How can one prepare for the test?

Fasting for 9-12 hours (water only) before blood collection is required.

Test parameters

A lipid profile typically includes:

• Total cholesterol

• High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) – often called ‘good cholesterol’ because it removes excess cholesterol and carries it to the liver for removal.

• Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) – often called ‘bad cholesterol’ because it deposits excess cholestrol in walls of blood vessels, which can contribute to atherosclerosis.

• Triglycerides