CHAPTER 4
Monitoring Your
Blood Glucose
What You Will Need
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Blood glucose test strip with its instructions for use
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Precision Xtra monitor calibrated to match the LOT
number of the blood glucose test strip you are using
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Lancing device and a new, sterile lancet
Important Information about Monitoring Your
Blood Glucose
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For more detailed information about your test strip,
please read its instructions for use before monitoring.
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Do not
use out-of-date test
strips. Check the expiration
date printed on the test strip
box and on each test strip foil
packet. If only the month and
year are printed on the test
strip, then the expiration date is
the last day of that month.
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Use the test strip
immediately
when you take it out of its
foil packet.
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Do not
use a wet, bent, scratched, or damaged test strip.
•
Do not
use the test strip if its foil packet has a puncture or
tear in it.
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Before you monitor, allow your monitor and test strip to
reach the recommended operating temperature range of
the test strip. The test strip operating temperature range is
in the blood glucose test strip instructions for use.
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Read the lancing device instructions for use.
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Example:
Expiration date
March 31, 2010
Questions? Call
Customer Care:
1-800-527-3339
Monit
oring
Blood Gluc
ose
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