Blood sugar testing question

FelkaKate said:

If you have a high reading (14.5nmol) that doesn't fit in with the readings either side (did them all few mins apart and the others were between 6.7 and 7.9), does this mean you just discount it as incorrect? How common is it that glucose readers do this? I'd washed and dried hands before (with no alcohol in the wash) A bit new to all this! Thanks

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I am not going to tell you that it's 'correct' or 'incorrect' but personally, with lower readings either side of it, I'd be inclined to ignore it.

Sometimes you get a rogue strip. Always check again after an unexpected result.

I find that in every batch of strips, that's two containers of 50 strips in each. 1 strip will never work even if blood is applied to either spot on the strip and I get strips that throw out random numbers sometimes that are just obviously not even close to right. Personally, I never trust just one reading. I squeeze another sample out while the meter reads the first sample so that the second result is really less that 10 seconds apart to validate the first reading. I have don't rely on a single test to be accurate, when I know how off they can be.