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Dropped testing strips

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Helss

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Location
London
Type of diabetes
Prediabetes
Treatment type
Diet only
Last night I had a butter fingers moment and dropped about half a tub of code free test strips on the floor. Didn't think much of it at the tie and scooped them up and put them back in the tub. Now I'm wondering if I should have thrown them out. They went on carpet, and I blew on them (like the 5 second rule with food hah hah).
 
to be sure you might try an experiment and test using 1 strip from the 5 second blown on batch and another test from a fresh batch ( do not drop them again :D ) and see if you get a widely varied reading -- if you do then I would say bin the dropped little devils

I find dropping strips when hypo is a nightmare :eek:
 
i dropped some in work once, was a nightmare haha! i just got a new batch from home and binned the ones i dropped didn't want to risk it </3
 
It was my last set (of course - why wouldn't it be?) so having ordered some more today I'll do a compare and see. It might be worth getting rid of them all as to make it worse I've mixed up dropped with non-drops. D'oh. Thanks for the advice :-)
 
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