Diabetes mellitus, often referred to simply as diabetes, is a syndrome of disordered metabolism, usually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, resulting in abnormally high blood sugar levels (hyperglycemia). Blood glucose levels are controlled by a complex interaction of multiple chemicals and hormones in the body, including the hormone insulin made in the beta cells of the pancreas. Diabetes mellitus refers to the group of diseases that lead to high blood glucose levels due to defects in either insulin secretion or insulin action in the body.

Diabetes develops due to a diminished production of insulin or resistance to its effects. Both lead to hyperglycemia, which largely causes the acute signs of diabetes: excessive urine production, resulting compensatory thirst and increased fluid intake, blurred vision, unexplained weight loss, lethargy, and changes in energy metabolism.

Dr. Anita Ramsetty, Endocrinologist

There are some people who'll have lots of glucose excursions, or they're on pumps, or they're patients who are pregnant or they require a lot of checking for other reasons. Diets are changing, hormones are changing, different patterns in life may be changing. As an example, I've found that patients who work at night tend to have very odd schedules and they also can have wide glucose excursions between the weekdays and the weekends when they don't work at night.

So I think there's some situations that putting in glucoses every day, or at least every other day is almost a must because you have so many things to catch up on, so much data to document that it could become overwhelming. In an ideal situation I would encourage people to view it just like a brushing your teeth habit.