Diabetes mellitus patients do not only suffer from disorders in the body.They must also spend lots of money for their routine medical treatment in order to prevent further complications.Moreover, diabetes is now a world pandemic.

This certainly gives a serious socioeconomic impact for each nation.According to the American Diabetes Association in 2008, the United States, the direct costsspent on the treatment of diabetes reaches 10 percent of the total national health spending.The value is equivalent to USD 4.000 to 7.000 per patient per year.

A person is diagnosed with diabetes (diabetisi) if on the examination of his or her fasting blood the sugar level exceeds 126 digits mg / dL.Another indication, the number two consecutive tests performed in blood sugar two hours after eating more than 200 mg / dL.

Even if they already have diabetes, the patient’s quality of life needs to be managed.So, they can live as normally as possible. Diabetes is a disease that is attached for life.But, that does not mean that diabetes can not be overcome.To be more cost saving, the people with diabetes can use self monitoring method.That is, they do blood sugar tests at home using portable equipment.The results of monitoring blood sugar will be very useful if documented (recorded).Then, the results reported to the doctor when the control. This is useful toevaluate the pattern of patient treatment.