How to Install Freestyle Lancets

If you have been diagnosed with either type-1 or type-2 diabetes, you should check your blood sugar level daily. The blood sugar should be checked multiple times a day to ensure that your body is not overproducing insulin. Blood sugar levels also should be checked before or after each meal. The Freestyle lancet is a spring loaded device that can be used on the arm instead of the fingers to draw a blood sample. Using a Freestyle lancet on the arm area is a pretty painless way to check blood sugar levels.

Things You'll Need

• Freestyle lancing device
• Freestyle lancets

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Instructions

• 1

  Hold the Freestyle lancing device away from your body. Turn device so that the cap faces upward and at an angle. Gently pull the cap off of the Freelance lancing device.

• 2

  Slide the non-needle end of a new lancet into the white lancet holder at the top of the device.

• 3

  Hold the lancing device and the plastic part of the lancet with one hand. Twist and remove the lancet cap from the end of the lancet with your other hand. Slide the lancet device cap back over the top of the device and snap it in place to cover the exposed lancet.

• 4

  Look at the small round settings window on the front of the lancet device. Turn the settings dial to the number-2 setting.

• 5

  Pull up on the grey plastic cocking handle located at the top of the lancet device. This will spring load the lancet so that it can be released into your arm for the blood sample. The lancet is now ready for use. The next step would be to prepare your arm for he blood sample.