Sinocare Blood Glucose Test Strips Only for Safe AQ Smart & Safe AQ Voice (Strips x100)

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You can also buy a blood glucose meter from a pharmacy or online. Our shop sells meters and test strips. You should speak with your healthcare team before you buy your own meter. Test strips One to two hours after a meal (post-prandial blood glucose: Less than 180 milligrams/deciliter (10 millimoles/liter) You can get test strips on prescription or you can buy them over the counter at a pharmacy or online. Most meters will only take one type of test strip. So, you should make sure you know which strip your meter uses before buying. This is also important to remember with your prescription for test strips. Your local area may only have a limited range of meters available to them and will only prescribe strips for the meters they give out. Advanced Electrode Strips: It can avoid interference from blood oxygen variations and assure you of accurate test results each time.

Write the discard date (6 months after opening the vial) on the vial label when you open it for the first time. Discard the remaining test strips after the discard date. There are many factors that will affect the test results, please refer to the following notes and try to test again. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Diabetes Basics. { https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/index.html} Lancets do not give inaccurate results if used beyond their expiration dates. The danger is that they may no longer remain sterile. Using lancets beyond the expiration date exposes us to the hazard of infection. Diabetes makes us vulnerable to infections, and we should never take such risks.

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If you have Type 2 and want to get test strips, you might not be able to get them on prescription. You will only be able to get test strips on prescription if your doctor or nurse wants you to self-monitor. How to use a test strip Remove a new test strip within the valid expiration of the vial. After taking the strip, immediately cover the vial to avoid losing efficiency. Mixing and matching are not recommended. Using a glucometer with strips made for another brand of machine is very likely to give inaccurate and dangerous results. Do Lancets Expire? You need to place your finger on the top suction port of the test strip, not on the side. When the suction port turns red, it means that a blood sample has been collected. (Do not drip onto the test paper)

Before a meal (fasting or pre-prandial blood glucose: 80 to 130 milligrams/deciliter (4.44 to 7.22 millimoles/liter) When using the blood glucose meter to measure, make sure that the second drop of blood flows out and then start to absorb and measure with the test strip. Gainey Wilson K., Ovington, P., & Dean, D. (2015). A Low-Cost Inkjet-Printed Glucose Test Strip System for Resource-Poor Settings.Journal of diabetes science and technology,9(6), 1275–1281.{ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667310} US Food and Drug Administration: FDA warns about risks of using home use test strips that are pre-owned or not authorized for sale in US, including those for glucose, warfarin. { https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-warns-about-risks-using-home-use-test-strips-are-pre-owned-or-not-authorized-sale-us-including}.The test strip expires;(The expiry date of the uric acid strips: 12 months, Period After Opening :3 months) Blood glucose strips are often expensive, and it is tempting to use expired strips. We should be aware that using glucose strips beyond the expiration date or more than three months after opening the container can give unreliable blood glucose readings. Such results can lead to unnecessary and dangerous changes to our treatment. In the interest of our safety, we should never use expired glucose test strips. References Your doctor or nurse will give you a blood glucose meter for free if you have type 1 diabetes or treat your diabetes with medication that can cause hypos. On rare occasions you will get a prescription instead. Remember, you don't pay for prescriptions if you have diabetes and it’s treated with any type of medication.