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Checking Your Blood Glucose
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Lance your finger
1. To stimulate blood flow, keep your hand warm or lower your
hand to waist level and gently massage your finger.
2. Set the depth setting on the lancing device to its shallowest
depth, 1 (Figure 7-21).
3. Lightly touch the lancing device (with the gray cap) against
the side of your fingertip (Figure 7-22).
4. Depress the release button, then put down the lancing
device.
5. Gently squeeze your finger, if needed, until a blood drop the
size of a pinhead forms.
Lance your forearm, upper arm, hand, thigh, or calf
1. To bring fresh blood to the surface of the test site, rub the site
vigorously for a few seconds (Figure 7-23) until you feel it get-
ting warm.
2. Set the depth setting on the lancing device to 2 (Figure 7-24).
3. Hold the lancing device (with the clear cap) against the top of
your test site.
Figure 7-22Figure 7-21
Figure 7-24
Figure 7-23
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