Blood Glucose Meters

Blood glucose meters are essential to proper self-care for people with diabetes Type 1, as well as the vast majority of people with diabetes Type 2. Diabetes is a disorder which affects the way the body processes glucose. This can happen for one of two reasons: either the body stops producing insulin, or it stops being able to use the insulin it produces. The first type of diabetes is known as Type 1, and the second is known as Type 2.

Blood glucose meters and treatments for diabetes have an interesting yet brief history. Believe it or not, insulin was not discovered until 1921. This was the year when scientists Sir Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best isolated insulin from the bovine pancreas. Scientists had been on the search for this hormone since 1910, when Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer first proposed its possible existence.

In 1922, Banting and Best administered the first therapeutic insulin injections to diabetic people. Before 1922, a diagnosis of diabetes Type 1 was a death sentence; a person could not survive it. It's no wonder that scientists Banting and Best won the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their efforts.

Blood glucose meters didn't become popular until the 1970s, and then only for use in hospitals. The first blood glucose meters intended for home use weren't introduced until 1980. During the 1980s, test strips were also used to test blood sugar levels, independent of glucose meters. You'll find a full range of blood glucose meters through Focus Express Mail Pharmacy, as well as all other types of diabetes supplies.