Important Information; About Aternative Site Testing (Ast) - Medaval MONOMETER VOICE Gebrauchsanleitung

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Severe dehydration and excessive water loss may cause false low
results. If you believe you are suffering from severe dehydration,
consult a healthcare professional immediately.
Test results below 60 mg/dL* (3.3 mmol/L) mean low blood glucose 1
(hypoglycemia). Test results greater than 240 mg/dL* (13.3 mmol/L)
mean high blood glucose (hyperglycemia). If you get results below
60 mg/dL or above 240 mg/dL, and do not have symptoms, first
repeat the test. If you have symptoms or continue to get results that
fall below 60 mg/dL or above 240 mg/dL, follow the treatment advice
of your healthcare professional.
Apply only capillary whole blood sample to test your blood glu-
cose. Applying other substances will cause wrong results.
If you are experiencing symptoms that are not consistent with your
blood glucose test results and you have followed all instructions de-
scribed in this owner's manual, call your healthcare professional.
Inaccurate results may occur in severely hypotensive individu-
als or patients in shock. Inaccurate low results may occur for
individuals experiencing a hyperglycemic-hyperosmolar state,
with or without ketosis. Critically ill patients should not be test-
ed with blood glucose meters.
Please refer to your test strip package insert for additional
important information.
* 1 : K a h n , R . , a n d W e i r, G . : J o s l i n ' s D i a b e t e s M e l l i t u s , 1 3 t h e d .
Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger (1994), 489.
* 2 : K r a l l , L . P. , a n d B e a s e r , R . S . : J o s l i n D i a b e t e s M a n u a l .
Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger (1989), 261-263.
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ABOUT ALTERNATIVE SITE TESTING (AST)
Important: There are limitations for doing AST. Please consult
your healthcare professional before you do AST.
What is AST?
Alternative site testing (AST) means that people use parts of the body
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other than fingertips to check their blood glucose levels. This system
provides you to test on the palm, the forearm, the upper arm, the calf,
and the thigh with the equivalent results to fingertip testing.
What's the advantage?
Fingertips feel pain more readily because they are full of nerve end-
ings (receptors). At other body sites, since
nerve endings were not so condensed, you
will not feel as much pain as at the fingertip.
When to use AST?
Food, medication, illness, stress and
exercise can affect blood glucose levels.
Capillary blood at fingertip reflects these
changes faster than capillary blood at other
sites. Therefore when testing blood glucose
during or immediately after meal, physical
exercise, or any other events, take blood
sample from your finger only.
We strongly recommend you do AST ONLY in the following intervals:
In a pre-meal or fasting state (more than 2 hours since the last
meal).
Two hours or more after taking insulin.
Two hours or more after exercise.
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