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Although diabetes isnt totally preventable, healthy lifestyle decisions dietary changes, increased exercise, and weight loss can lower chances of developing it.

Can type 2 diabetes be prevented?

Type 2 diabetes is not curable and cannot be reversed. Weight loss and regular exercise will help overweight patients return to normal blood glucose levels.

Can type 2 diabetes be cured or reversed with weight loss?

A diabetic glucose sensor is part of a continuous glucose monitoring system that is inserted under the skin, which allows it to measure your glucose levels.

What is a Diabetic glucose sensor?

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune disease that occurs when the body’s own immune system mistakenly destroys insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.

What is type 1 diabetes?

A glucometer,  glucose meter, or blood glucose monitoring device is a home measurement system to test the amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood.

What is a glucometer?

Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is an autoimmune condition that prevents the body from making insulin, a hormone that regulates glucose levels (sugar) in the bloodstream.

What is type 1 diabetes and how do I manage it?

Fasting blood glucose (sugar) level refers to your blood sugar levels without any food or liquid in your stomach (besides water) for at least eight hours.

What is a fasting blood sugar or fasting glucose levels?

What is hypoglycemia and how does it differ from hyperglycemia? Find out in this quick-reference answer.

What is the difference between hypoglycemia vs hyperglycemia? | Dexcom UK

While weight loss and regular exercise can help type 2 diabetes return to normal blood glucose (sugar) levels, there is currently no cure for type 2 diabetes.

Can you cure type 2 diabetes?

Checking and monitoring of your blood glucose (sugar) levels are very important because it’s one of the main forms of keeping your diabetes under control.

Why is it important to monitor blood glucose levels?

Normal or usual plasma blood glucose (sugar) levels range depending on the time of day, meals, and other factors.

What is a normal blood glucose level?

Type 2 diabetes is a condition that affects your body’s metabolism of glucose (sugar).

What is type 2 diabetes?

When wearing your Dexcom G6, you can go through metal detectors or hand wand searched when going through airport security

Can Dexcom G6 go through airport security?

Hyperglycaemia, also known as high blood sugar, is the presence of excess glucose in the blood.

What Is Hyperglycemia? Signs and Symptoms

Juvenile diabetes is an older term for type 1 diabetes.  Type 1 diabetes is most often diagnosed in children and young adults whose bodies do not make insulin.

What is juvenile diabetes?

Find out the most common symptoms of type 2 diabetes (T2D).

What are the symptoms of type 2 diabetes?

How often you test your blood glucose depends on which type of diabetes you have, your blood glucose range, and what kind of treatment is prescribed for you.

How often should you test your blood glucose?

Symptoms related to type 1 diabetes (T1D) build over time or come on suddenly, sometimes within just a few weeks when the disease reaches a critical point.

What are the main symptoms of type 1 diabetes?

Prediabetes is a condition prior to developing type 2 diabetes. Blood sugar levels are higher than normal, but not yet high enough to be defined as diabetes.

What does it mean to have prediabetes?

HbA1C (also known as A1C) is a measurement of your average blood sugar control for the last two to three months.

What is HbA1C?

Since April 2022, NHS England recommends that all people with type 1 diabetes are offered a glucose sensor such as Dexcom real time continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) System to manage their diabetes.

Is Dexcom G6 available on the NHS?

To find out if you are eligible to receive a Dexcom CGM System on the NHS talk to your Healthcare Professional. You can learn more about NHS funding for Dexcom.

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