Managing Diabetes Diabetes is a disease that must be managed every day. If uncontrolled, chances are it will lead to progressively progres-sively debilitating illnesses and eventually prove to be fatal. Now, doctors have been using a product which they believe can help prevent or reverse some of the serious complications of diabetes. A Jpc MIL Diabetics dependent on insulin must keep a close watch on the level of sugar sug-ar in their bloodstream in order to control their disease. di-sease. When the sugar level goes up or down, the prescribed pre-scribed regimens of diet, exercise ex-ercise and insulin must be adjusted, depending on the type and severity of each case. Blood sugar levels vary widely depending on the amount of exercise a person takes, how much and what is eaten and how the insulin is administered to and distributed dis-tributed in the body. If blood sugar levels could be monitored quickly, accurately and inexpensively, inexpensive-ly, diabetics could make the proper adjustments promptly. prompt-ly. Until now, urine strip tests have been the best means available to estimate sugar levels, even though the information is often several hours old. Urine tests indicate indi-cate levels of blood sugar, but they are not exact, they usually cannot be used to make moment-to-moment, day-to-day decisions. They simply do not provide the information needed to adjust ad-just insulin dosage precisely. Now, however, chemically chemical-ly treated strips are available avail-able that let diabetics test their own blood. Working with their doctors, they can make both immediate and long-term adjustments. It makes diabetes management much easier. The blood self-monitoring test is made simpler by using test strips called Chemstrip bG , developed by Boehringer Mannheim and distributed in the U.S. by Bio-Dynamics, through most retail pharmacies.