Checking Your Meter - Accu-Chek Active User Manual

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Checking your meter

Checking your meter
You can check whether the meter provides correct test results. To perform this control test, a glucose
control solution is applied to the test strip instead of blood.
Perform a control test using Accu‑Chek Active control solutions
• whenever you open a new test strip box,
• after you clean the test strip guide and the measurement window,
• if you are in doubt about a blood glucose result.
Please ask your customer support and service centre where you can obtain the control solutions.
Preparing for a control test
For a control test, you need:
• the meter with the code chip inserted
• the Accu‑Chek Active test strips that belong to the code chip
• Accu‑Chek Active control solution Control 1 (low glucose concentration) or Control 2 (high glucose
concentration)
• a clean, dry paper towel
• the concentration table for the control solutions (see label on the test strip container)
A control test is in its main steps the same as a blood glucose test, except that you apply control solution
to the test strip instead of blood.
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Items required for a control test