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exercise or stressful event, take the blood sample from your fingertip only.
Use AST only:
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.
During steady state blood glucose conditions.
Do NOT use AST if:
You have reason to believe you have hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
Your routine glucose results are often fluctuating.
You are pregnant.
How to increase the accuracy?
Stimulating blood perfusion by rubbing the puncture site prior to blood extraction has a significant
influence on the glucose value obtained.
Blood from the site without rubbing exhibits a measurably different glucose concentration than
blood from the fingertip. When the puncture site was rubbed prior to blood extraction, the difference
was significantly reduced.
Important:
To increase the accuracy when using AST, rub the puncture site more than 20
seconds before extracting blood.
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