In fact, setting blood sugar control targets for diabetic patients is a very complicated system engineering, which requires endocrinologists to comprehensively consider the age of each patient, the course of diabetes and whether it is complicated with other diseases, and finally formulate individual blood sugar control targets.
Therefore, for diabetics, the easiest way is to ask the doctor about the target value of their blood sugar before and after meals, so that they can know well when monitoring their blood sugar at home.
Clinically, according to the control goal of patients' blood sugar, we can generally be divided into the following three situations: general control (blood sugar before meals is controlled at 6 ~ 8 mmol/L; 8~ 10 mmol/L after meals and loose control (8 ~10mmol/l before meals; 8~ 12 mmol/L after meals, which can be relaxed to 13.9 mmol/L in special circumstances and strictly controlled (4.4 ~ 6mmol/l before meals; 6~8 mmol/L after meals).
Generally speaking, young patients (under 65 years old) who are newly diagnosed, have a relatively short course of disease, have no obvious complications and serious accompanying diseases, and diabetic patients who have no obvious adverse reactions such as hypoglycemia and weight gain after hypoglycemic treatment can adopt relatively strict blood sugar control targets in clinic, so that patients can benefit from blood sugar control as much as possible.
On the other hand, for patients with high risk of hypoglycemia, such as patients with long diabetes course (15 years old or above), short life expectancy, serious accompanying diseases or severe hypoglycemia, hypoglycemia must be avoided during the treatment, and relatively loose blood sugar control targets should be given, so as to relatively slow down the speed of blood sugar reduction and gradually achieve the control targets.
To sum up, setting blood sugar targets for diabetic patients is like "tailoring", and individual blood sugar standards must be set according to the specific situation of each patient.