Glucose monitoring for diabetes in children

Blood glucose monitoring is a tool to guide medical nutrition therapy, exercise intensity and time, and helps to effectively prevent hypoglycemia and adjust insulin treatment programs.It is an important part of comprehensive treatment of diabetes mellitus.Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), as a supplement to self-monitoring blood glucose, helps to reduce the incidence of hypoglycemia and the duration of hypoglycemia in diabetic children.In addition, parents and children are satisfied with CGM, so it is increasingly used in children with diabetes mellitus.However, current research and clinical experience have shown that it is not entirely possible to rely on CGM values for treatment adjustment in children.Success with CGM requires detailed education and training in diabetes management coupled with extensive training in the use of CGM. Key words: Diabetes; Child; Self-monitoring blood glucose; Continuous glucose monitoring