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How to Use a Diabetes Meter

Using a diabetes meter is simple and it can save your life. It is the first line of defense in the battle against high blood sugar. However, a diabetes meter is only useful to the person that knows how to use it. This is why it is important that every diabetic person learns how to use a diabetes meter.

Diabetes testing supplies come with diabetes monitors.  These are alternatively known as diabetes testing meters, testing strips, lancets and alcohol wipes.

To use a diabetes meter, take a new test strip and insert it into your diabetes meter. Next, take an alcohol wipe to an area of your finger tip, possibly on the side away from your nails. Then wave your hand in the air to allow the air to dry the area you have just cleaned without contaminating it. The next step involves your lancet. The lancet usually comes with a setting to adjust the intensity at which the needle inside it will prick you in order to pierce your skin so that you can put your blood into your testing strip. Find the setting you feel is most accurate. The setting you use on your lancet may depend on your pain sensitivity. Use the lancet to prick your finger. Squeeze the area around your finger that you have just pricked with the lancet and milk blood out of your finger into the diabetes testing strip. Your result should appear within seconds. For more information visit to our site  at http://www.us-med.com

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Learn how to test your blood glucose (BG) or blood sugars with my demostration. I’ll tell you the best (and less painful) sites to get blood from, the best meters to use and why, how to convert your BG from mmol/L to mg/L, and what to do when your BG is too high.

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