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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
Noticed too many spoiled test due to not enough blood getting on the test strip, so clipped tabs off to improve sampling
There alway always seemed a knack with this idevidual cassette design anyway.? The key was a good sized bead of blood.
As opposed to strips that are set up for minimal amounts of blood letting.
Ironically the new "tabs" must have been thought up as a simple "solution" to previous fouled tests due to not enough blood..
Of course, this is just my personal take on it..
I rarely manage a good sized drop of blood. I struggle with this, but I have used the Accu Chek Mobile for 4 years and never had a problem getting enough on the strip. I hardly had any failed tests despite a tiny drop of blood. I agree though that there is a particular knack to using them, and this knack doesn't work with the tabs!
Tabs were too high, not letting test strip contact with surface of finger