Today, modern blood glucose meters allow you to get accurate results quickly wherever you are and also have a number of useful additional elements that are constantly evolving.
How a smart meter helps you
Blood glucose monitoring system Glucometru Contour plus ELITE is a smart meter designed for self-testing performed by people with diabetes, with samples of venous blood and fresh capillary blood freshly collected from the tip of your finger or palm.
Contour Plus ELITE is the only meter that has a screen with a countdown of 60 seconds, which allows the application of a larger amount of blood to the same strip, if not enough blood was placed on the first application.
At the same time, the free application Contour Diabetes facilitates the improvement of diabetes management and is associated with the improvement of glycemic control and with the decrease of the number of hypoglycemic episodes.. Since it has a high accuracy, Contour Plus ELITE may reduce the risk of undetected hypoglycaemia.
What are the essentials for a smart meter?
When choosing a smart meter, pay attention to:
- Easy to use
- Test speed
- Precision
- Dimension
- The cost of the meter and test strips
- The amount of blood needed for each test
- Ability to store test results in memory
- Minor pain associated with using the product
- Ability to transmit data to the phone
- Application easy to understand and use
- Application that automatically prepares blood glucose log and report
- Technical support provided by the manufacturer
- Guarantee
- Other special features, such as: automatic timing, large display screen, etc.
When you need to measure your blood sugar
Thus, for the correct monitoring of blood glucose, the check must be done several times a day: on an empty stomach after sleep, before and after meals, before sleep.
Additional measurements will be required in the following situations:
- After sports activities
- Before or after a trip
- When you have symptoms of hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
Regular blood glucose tests provide guidance and allow you to prevent certain complications, and the sooner you can reach the recommended blood glucose levels and keep them constant, the faster you can learn to keep your diabetes under control!
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