Pre and Post Meal Testing with Bayer's Contour USB

Maintaining stable blood glucose levels is the key goal for people with diabetes who wish to avoid diabetes complications. Testing before and after each meal is the best way to ensure accurate blood sugar level management.

By testing at allotted times using a meter such as Bayer's Contour USB, people with diabetes can start to learn how food affects their blood glucose levels.

Regular testing based around a structured framework with clear goals can be the key to diabetes control for many patients, but understanding pre and post meal testing is particularly important.

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Logging your pre and post meal readings

In the past, blood glucose meters have allowed logging of pre and post meal blood glucose levels, however, complicated interfaces and lack of intuitive computer connectivity means that many people with diabetes have continued to use traditional logbooks to manually record their data.

Bayer's Contour USB answers these questions by seamlessly integrating meal marking technology into the test process, allowing diabetics to easily monitor blood glucose level trends.

How exactly does Bayer's Contour USB improve pre and post meal testing?

After blood is applied to the test strip, the Contour USB prompts the tester to mark whether the reading is pre or post-meal. The testing process using the Contour® USB cuts down on meal marking to make capturing data easier. Furthermore, testers are also able to tag results with notes. Having the ability to quickly mark results with pre and post-prandial labels allows the tester to identify trends in their blood glucose depending on what they have eaten.

Plug it in

This really comes to life when the Contour USB is plugged into a Windows or Mac, using the ground-breaking integrated USB connection.  Having logged blood glucose results, patients can use the GlucoFacts Deluxe onboard (plug and play) diabetes management software. This will then show pre- and post-meal trends.

This can therefore help both patients and their healthcare professionals (Doctors or Diabetes Specialist Nurses) to evaluate, analyse and if necessary correct blood glucose management.

Managing your blood sugar easier

Viewing pre and post-meal blood sugar averages could help users of the Contour USB to quickly take action to better manage their blood glucose. By setting a target range, if your pre and post-meal blood glucose averages fall into this range you can feel confident that your control is working. If you results fall outside target range, you can check your averages and discuss the results with your healthcare professionals.

All in all, the Contour USB helps patients with diabetes to better understand and monitor pre and post-meal blood glucose testing.