Normal Blood Sugar Levels

What are normal blood sugar levels?

Having normal blood sugar levels are critically important for people living with diabetes. Because of the nature of diabetes, ensuring long-term, normal blood sugar levels is the only way to prevent potentially dangerous health complications from arising. So, what is a normal blood sugar level?

There are many ways to define normal blood sugar levels,

1. To a medical student:
A normal blood sugar level is defined as: 
No symptoms of uncontrolled diabetes (for example polyuria, polydipsia, nocturia, fatigue, weight loss) +
Random plasma glucose level of <11.1mmol/L or a fasting plasma glucose level of < 5.6mmol/L

2. To a normal person with diabetes:
A normal blood sugar level should be around: 3.5 – 8 mmol/L

3. If you are a more careful person with diabetes:
A normal blood sugar level is ideally 6 mmol/L before eating, 4 – 7.7 mmol/L after eating

4. To some doctors:
Although ideally, a normal blood sugar level should follow those remembered by a strict medical student, acceptable normal blood sugar levels can sometimes vary according to individuals and is correlated with the diabetes log book and the HbA1c value. For example, in elderly patients, the normal blood sugar levels aimed for are higher than the levels aimed for younger patients because of the higher risks associated with low blood sugar levels.

As you can see, opinions of normal blood sugar levels can vary, depending on the person’s experience and the patient’s condition. However, your blood sugar levels should not vary too much from the standard definition, as there are many undesirable high blood sugar symptoms, low blood sugar symptoms and other health problems related to long term high blood sugar levels.

We will talk more about other related topics in the future. In the meantime, I urge you to follow this link to learn more about what you can do to maintain normal blood sugar levels.

Just as a side note:
Many people use the unit mg/dL instead of mmol/L, it’s easy to convert the values. Just multiply the value in mmol/L by 18 and you will get the answer in mg/dL.

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