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We strongly recommend you do AST ONLY in the following intervals:
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.
Do NOT use AST if:
You think your blood glucose is low.
You are unawareness of hypoglycemia.
Your AST results do not match the way you feel.
You are testing for 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 finger. When the puncture site was rubbed (20 seconds) prior to blood
extraction, the difference was significantly reduced.
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