When you regularly check your blood glucose, you’ll learn which foods, medications, and activities affect your blood sugar in a good or bad way. Put a test strip into your blood glucose meter.

Test strips are usually made of paper or plastic and have a special coating that reacts with glucose. The strip changes color when it comes into contact with glucose. This change can be read on a ...

Traditional fingerstick glucose meters and test ... First approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2007, FreeStyle Lite test strips introduced ZipWik tabs on each side of the strip ...

It helps you identify and track how different foods ... some blood to the test strip you inserted into the meter. Your meter will analyze the blood and give you the blood glucose reading on ...

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Regular glucose readings can help you understand how food, activity and other factors ... purchasing a glucose testing kit. The cost of a test strip, the quality of the lancing device, how much ...

Blood sugar, or glucose, is the body’s main energy source. The body breaks down the food we eat into sugar ... They run the test by inserting the strip into the monitor, which shows their ...

Some users find the font too small This glucose monitor has just about everything you could want: a light where you insert the test strip (great for middle-of-the-night finger pricks!), ...