'Burnout' a Growing Threat For People With Diabetes

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	'Burnout' a Growing Threat For People With Diabetes

As people with diabetes know, maintaining lower blood glucose levels significantly lowers the risk of long-term complications from the disease such as vision loss, kidney disease and amputations.

However, some people with diabetes still fail to monitor their blood glucose levels frequently enough to make the appropriate adjustments to their insulin intake. One cause for this is what diabetes educators call "diabetes burnout," a problem that results from the overwhelming challenge of maintaining the rigorous and relentless discipline of accurately measuring, recording and averaging blood glucose levels. It is a multi-step process that must be repeated several times a day.

Living with diabetes is not easy, and burnout is understandable. But endocrinologists agree that the discipline of frequent monitoring is critical to long-term health. The key to success is making the process easier. Monitoring must be made to be more convenient or people with diabetes will eventually tire of the process and monitor less than they should.

Recognizing this, manufacturers of diabetes-related products are all working to develop monitoring devices that will simplify the process and encourage frequency of use. The challenge for consumers has been finding an effective, convenient and easy-to-use device among the many on the market.

One monitoring device lauded for its effectiveness is the NewTek Blood Glucose Monitoring System from Hypoguard. It is the first-ever disposable monitoring device, and it is getting significant attention from health professionals, pharmacists and people with diabetes who see NewTek's product features as a convenient and practical way to fight diabetes burnout.

Part of Wal-Mart's exclusive ReliOn diabetes care products, the NewTek Monitoring System comes with 100 test strips already in the meter, so there's no more handling strips or carrying a separate test strip container. The entire device can be thrown away when finished. It's pre-calibrated and there's no need to replace batteries. On top of that, NewTek is extremely accurate, very reliable and affordable. It may not be the cure-all, but the NewTek Blood Glucose Monitoring System, sold exclusively at Wal-Mart, may be the most significant recent advancement in the fight against diabetes burnout and in keeping patients healthy.

Author: Rick Young

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