Determine some Methods of Blood Glucose Estimation?

The various types of methods for estimation of blood glucose can be grouped under two groups:

a) Chemical methods

b) Enzymatic methods

The common chemical methods include:

• Alkaline Copper Reduction Methods
• O-Toluidine Method
• Somogyi-Shaffer Method

Some of the enzymetic methods are:

• Glucose Oxidase Method
• Hexokinase Method

Chemical methods are less specific when compared to enzymatic methods. However, enzymatic methods are expensive and require expensive enzymes whereas chemical methods are doable in any laboratory, so we shall focus at the most popular chemical method of estimating blood sugar- the alkaline copper reduction method.