regarding pp blood sugar test

by pralay
(berhampore,wb,india)

QUESTION: My mother(66years) have diabetes problem.at the time of Blood Sugar PP Test she took meals and medicine and after 2hours perform the test.

My question is it right?


ANSWER: Hi there,

First of all, you have to know that PP stands for post-prandial, which means after having a meal. Because of this, it is absolutely correct for your mother to execute the test after having a meal, along with the medications.

Other thing, which is important is that she has done right to execute the test 2 hours after the meal.

Generally, the post-prandial blood glucose tests are executed 2 hours after the meal, because the organism needs time to extract the glucose from the food acquired, to metabolize it and to transport it to all the tissues.

The normal period, which the organism needs to execute all these processes, is about 2 hours.

Important for the post-prandial blood glucose test is the result. You have to know that it would be good for your mother to maintain values less than 180mg/dl. Result like this is talking about good control of diabetes.

Other important thing is to execute the HbA1c test along with the post-prandial blood glucose test, because the A1C test represents how the diabetes was controlled during the past 2-3 months. These kinds of data can improve the treatment.

I hope that your mother is controlling well her diabetes and there is nothing wrong with the results.

Hope it helped! All the best!

Dr.Alba