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Remember:
• Consult with your healthcare professional before using alternate site
testing.
• Choose a different puncture site each time you test. Repeated
punctures in the same spot may cause soreness and calluses.
• If bruising occurs at an alternate site or you have difficulty getting a
sample, consider sampling from a fingertip instead.
You may want to review the choice of sites with your healthcare profes-
sional.
• Do not share reusable lancing device with anyone including other family
members!
Alternate Site Testing
5. While holding the lancing device on your
test site, look through the clear cap; until
a round drop of blood appears
(approximately 0.3 ).
6. Lift the lancing device straight up; be
careful not to smear the blood on your
testing site.
7. Place the edge of the test strip to the
drop of blood. The blood will automati-
cally be drawn up.
Caution:
Do not test on your forearm or palm when:
• You think your blood glucose is rapidly falling. For example within two hours
of exercise, rapid-acting insulin injection, or an insulin pump bolus.
• Testing with a fingertip sample may identify hypoglycemia or an insulin reaction
sooner than testing with a forearm or palm sample.