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- Accurate blood glucose testing
- a challenge in the real world

Before a blood glucose meter and test strips can be sold in the UK they have to pass stringent tests to ensure they are accurate. So it follows, then, that all blood glucose meters are the same or does it? All may be accurate in a testing laboratory, but what about out here in the real world?

It can be really puzzling when you get a blood glucose result you don't understand. Of course bodies aren't machines and things can always surprise you. But in the real world there are also lots of things that can make measuring your blood glucose less accurate. Here are just a few:

Did you forget to calibrate?

Always wash your hands

Take care of your test strips

Watch out if the light is bright

Apply enough blood

Watch out if you are taking certain tablets

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