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Control Solution Range

HICHAM_T2

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I Have informations In Box Strips control solution Range 70-94 mg/dl 3.9-5.2 mmol/l
i have not a lot information about it please anyone has information can help
what thay means
 
It means that when you use the control solution on a test strip, instead of your blood then the reading on the meter should be between 70 and 94 mg/dl (if you use mg/dl) or 3.9 and 5.2 mmol/l (if you use mmol/l), if it comes back with a result not in that range then your test strips are faulty or your meter is faulty or needs calibration (if possible - not sure if you can calibrate them),
 
Thank you for your reply

But this number varies from one bottle to another
Sometimes numbers are illogical 230mg/dl to 400mg/dl
EDIT what Do You Means instead of your blood then the reading on the meter
 
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Every bottle will have different figures - that is correct. You should have got a small bottle of fluid with your meter and that is what you test a strip from anew pack with. The blue fluid should test within the parameters of the figures printed in the pack. I don’t bother texting each pack and it is a waste of a strip if you are self finding.
Hope that makes sense!
 
HICHAM_T2 said:
EDIT what Do You Means instead of your blood then the reading on the meter
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Sorry, I missed out some important punctuation in the sentence making it not very clear - it was late at the time and I was half asleep
What it should've really said was 'when you use the control solution on a test strip (instead of your blood), then the reading on the meter should be between 70 and 94 mg/dl' - hope that makes it more understandable - sometimes I'm not very good at explaining things though.

And yes as Flora123 said different control solutions have different figures, I got two with my meter, solution 1 is 1.7-3.3mmol/l and solution 2 is 14.1-19.1 mmol/l - it means you can check at both low and higher ends of the blood sugar range
 
At the outset I would like to thank you for your patience
It seems that my English is not so good
Does this mean that we avoid this information written on a flask
And to focus only on the readings between 70mg/dl to 99mg/dl
 
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The control solutions are only for testing the strips and/or meter, that is all they are for, and each control solution should have meter readings in the range specified for it

Edit: And do not worry about not understanding what I said first time, sometimes English can be very easily misunderstood if it is badly worded or there are missing punctuation marks (ie commas, full stops etc)
 
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