Fasting Blood Sugar (FBS) Test In Jabalpur - Price & Details

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Fasting blood sugar, often referred to as fasting blood glucose or FBS, is a routine blood test that serves as a fundamental tool for screening diabetes, prediabetes, and gestational diabetes in pregnant women. It helps assess your body's ability to utilize or store glucose effectively. Fasting blood sugar tests are commonly denoted as FBS tests and are pivotal in monitoring the efficacy of diabetes management, encompassing medications and dietary adjustments. Now, let's delve into the specifics of this test.

Here are the circumstances when a person should have their blood glucose measured with a fasting blood sugar test:

• As part of a standard annual physical examination to monitor blood glucose over time.
• For pregnant women to ensure pregnancy hormones are not causing diabetes.
• When a person has symptoms of diabetes, a family history of diabetes, or risk factors for diabetes, such as obesity.
• When a person has previously had a higher-than-normal blood glucose level.
• If exhibiting diabetic symptoms like unexplained weight loss, blurred vision, dry skin, excessive thirst or hunger, fatigue, slow-healing bruises, high infection rates, frequent urination, or tingling/numbness.
• When there are risk factors for diabetes, such as a sedentary lifestyle, obesity, polycystic ovarian syndrome, prediabetes, age of 45 or older, family history of diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, or during pregnancy to check for gestational diabetes.

These are the scenarios when an FBS test may be recommended by your doctor.

To get ready for a fasting glucose test, refrain from eating or drinking anything (except water) for a period of 8 to 12 hours. The specific duration of the fast will be instructed by your healthcare provider.

During the FBS Test

Our highly trained phlebotomists at PharmEasy Labs prioritize your safety and comfort during the sample collection process. They use sterilized syringes to draw blood from a vein in your arm and collect samples in labelled vials. The blood specimens are carefully stored in cooling containers to maintain their quality.