TESTING
TESTING
35
34
TESTING
69
Low Blood Sugar
251
High Blood Sugar
High Blood Sugar
If your blood sugar reading is over 250 mg/dL:
Control Solution Testing
High and Low Blood Sugar Readings
• A screen with large
orange numbers will
alert you that your blood
sugar is high.
• A screen with large
orange numbers will
alert you that your blood
sugar is low.
• If AutoLog is on and you were not able to mark it
before the high or low alert appeared, press the
Notes button. You may now select
Before Meal,
After Meal or No Mark by pressing the button next
to it.
High and Low Blood Sugar Readings
Your meter has been preset with a hypoglycemic (low
blood sugar) value of 70 mg/dL and a hyperglycemic
(high blood sugar) value of 250 mg/dL. These are the
default values, but can be customized by you and/or
your health care professional.
Low Blood Sugar
If your blood sugar reading is under 70 mg/dL:
Control Solution* Testing
*Control solution may not be included in all meter
kits. Contact Customer Service for information about
obtaining control solution. See the back cover for
contact information.
Quality Control
• Shake the control solution bottle well,
about 15 times before every use.
• Unmixed control solution may cause
inaccurate results.
You should perform a control test when:
• using your meter for the first time
• you open a new bottle or package of test strips
• you think your meter may not be working correctly
• you have repeated, unexpected blood glucose results
CAUTION: Use only
Contour
®
next control
solutions (Level 1 and Level 2) with your
Contour
®
next LINK blood glucose monitoring
system. Using anything other than Contour next
control solutions can cause inaccurate results.
WARNING
Shake the control solution well before testing.
WARNING
• Do not calibrate your continuous glucose
monitoring device from a control result
• Do not calculate a bolus based on a
control result