How to Use a Glucose Monitor
- 1). Begin by washing your hands thoroughly with soap and water or cleaning the area to be lanced with alcohol and drying it completely.
- 2). Prick your finger with a lancet.
- 3). Hold the hand downward and squeeze the finger until a small drop of blood appears.
- 4). Catch the blood on a test strip.
- 5). Insert the test strip in the SMBG meter to record the result.
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