Abbott Diabetes Care Blood Glucose Monitoring System ART21258 - Manual (Page 22)

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CHAPTER 4
Monitoring Your
Blood Glucose
What You Will Need
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Blood glucose test strip with its instructions for use
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Blood glucose monitor
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Lancing device and a new, sterile lancet
Important Information about Monitoring Your
Blood Glucose
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Do not use out-of-date test strips. Check the
expiration date printed on the test strip box and on
each test strip foil packet. If only the month and year
are printed on the test strip, then the expiration date
is the last day of that month.
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For more detailed information
about your test strip, please
read its instructions for use
before monitoring.
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Use the test strip
immediately when you take
it out of its foil packet.
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Do not use a wet, bent, scratched, or damaged test
strip.
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Do not use the test strip if its foil packet has a
puncture or tear in it.
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Example:
Expiration date
March 31, 2011
Questions?
Call Customer Care:
1-800-992-3612
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Monit
oring
Blood
Gluc
ose
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