How to Produce a Glucose Standard Curve

The level of glucose, often referred to as blood sugar, becomes extremely important when hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, pregnancy and especially diabetes is concerned. To understand glucose levels, you need to understand how they change or stay the same over a period a time. One spike or drop in the level of glucose may be worrisome; however, if you have been tracking these levels over time, one spike or drop may not be a cause for concern. Making a glucose standard curve is a great way of keeping track of the levels.

Things You'll Need

• Graph paper
• Results from a series of blood tests or experiments

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Instructions

• 1

  Gather the glucose levels from the series of tests that you wish to study. If you have diabetes, there is a good chance that you conduct one of more daily tests on your own every day. If you are just conducting an experiment, decide how often you wish to test the glucose of the liquid you are studying and make sure to record that information.

• 2

  A standard curve is really just a simple graph. Draw the beginning of the graph, which should look like a big letter L, on a sheet of graph paper. The vertical line is known as the Y axis and the horizontal line is known as the X axis.

• 3

  Label the graph. In this case, the Y axis will be label tabled "Time" and the X axis will be labeled "Glucose Levels."

• 4

  Determine the range of time and the range of glucose levels that you wish to study and then label the Y axis and the X axis as such. For example, the times going down the left of the vertical Y axis might be "6:00 PM, Friday," "6:00 AM, Saturday," "6:00 PM, Saturday," and so on.

• 5

  Take the initial information from the glucose tests, find the information on both the Y axis and the X axis, and then plot the information on the graph.

• 6

  Connect the dots. This will form the curve you are looking for. By making a glucose standard curve, you now have a visual to see how glucose, or blood sugar levels have varied over time.