Alternative Site Testing - Fora D40 Pro Manual

Alternative Site Testing

IMPORTANT:
There are limitations with AST (Alternative Site Testing).
What is AST?
Alternative site testing (AST) means that
people can use parts of the body other
than the fingertips to check the blood glu-
cose levels. This system allows you to test
on the palm, the forearm, the upper arm,
the calf or the thigh with the equivalent
results to fingertip testing.
What is the advantage?
Fingertips feel pain more readily because
they are full of nerve endings (receptors).
At other body sites, since nerve endings
are not so condensed, the patient will not
feel as much pain on the fingertips.
When to use AST?
Food, medication, illness, stress and exercise can affect blood glucose
levels. Capillary blood at fingertip reflects these changes faster than
capillary blood at other sites. Thus, when testing blood glucose during
or immediately after meal, physical exercise, or any other event, take
the blood sample from the finger only.
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