How to Use One Touch Ultra Diabetes Test Strips

Using One Touch Ultra Diabetes Tests strips to check your blood glucose levels is a simple process. The test strips are easy to use and you can have your blood glucose results in a matter of seconds. You must have a glucose monitor and a finger lancing device in order to perform the test. The testing strips vary in price, and can be purchased in small or large quantities. The One Touch Ultra Diabetes Test Strips can be used with almost all variations of the One Touch glucose monitors.

Things You'll Need

• One Touch test strips
• Finger lance
• Glucose meter

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Instructions

• 1

  Insert your test strip into the glucose meter. Insert the end of the testing strip (the part with the two metallic strips) into the test port, or the hole at the tip of the glucose meter, face up.

• 2

  Turn the glucose meter on. Check that the code number for the strip matches the code on the meter. If it does not, you'll need to code the machine again.

• 3

  Prick yourself with your finger lancing device. Make sure the depth setting is appropriate for you; too low of a setting will not draw an adequate amount blood and too high of a setting is painful. Also be aware that the nerve endings in your fingers are most sensitive at the tips. Lancing the side of your finger is not as painful.

• 4

  Squeeze around the area you lanced to produce a droplet of blood. If you did not produce an adequate blood sample, hold your hand down and squeeze gently, using your thumb and index fingers.

• 5

  Touch the blood droplet to the testing strip. Hold until the small window (on the edge of the test strip) is full. Wait for your results to be displayed on the meter display window.