Important Information About Your Freestyle Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System - Freestyle Lite User Manual

The FreeStyle Lite System Uses a Tiny Sample of
0.3µl So You Can Test on a Variety of Locations
Many Test Sites Available
Suggested Test
Areas for the Hand
The human figure above shows the areas where you can test with the
FreeStyle Lite system. Avoid moles, veins, bones and tendons.
WARNING:
We recommend that you test on your fingers if you are testing
for hypoglycaemia (low blood glucose) or if you suffer from
hypoglycaemia unawareness.
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Important Information About Your FreeStyle Lite
Blood Glucose Monitoring System
How the FreeStyle Lite System Should Be Used
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Upper arm
Forearm
Hand
Do use the FreeStyle Lite system for:
Fingertips
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Thigh
Do not use the FreeStyle Lite system for:
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Calf
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The FreeStyle Lite system is intended for use outside the body (in
other words, in vitro diagnostic use only).
The FreeStyle Lite system is used for measuring blood glucose (also
known as blood sugar) from samples taken from the forearm, upper
arm, hand, thigh, calf or fingers.
Important: The FreeStyle Lite meter should only be used with
FreeStyle Lite test strips and FreeStyle control solution. Using
other test strips and control solution with this meter can produce
inaccurate results.
Testing blood glucose.
Testing only with fresh capillary whole blood samples.
The diagnosis of diabetes.
Testing on newborns.
Testing of arterial blood.
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