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<blockquote data-quote="Celsus" data-source="post: 864510" data-attributes="member: 185674"><p>Using AccuCheck Mobile. 50 bg tests in the built-in test-strip module. The finger pricker is built in, with a drum of 6 lancets.</p><p>The 50 tests typically lasts for 8-10 days for me, and I change then both the test-strip module and the lancet drum.</p><p>Sometimes I have by then not even gone through using all 6 lancets. The manufacturers advise you to change for every single time you test. (they have to, for regulatory safety reasons) and so do medical staff. If you change every time or not does not impact the read result. Except if your fingers are really dirty and/or your immune system down, then you do not really need to change that often. Its more then a question about your own comfort. I change when I feel the lancet starts to be a bit blunt. (it starts to punch a bit more clumsy/painful through the skin). So with all the above in mind, I change the lancet for every 8-14 pricks.</p><p></p><p>Same thing with the insulin pen: All manufacturers (to make more money than they already do, on all the gadgets we buy from them) and medical staff also say you should change the needle on your pen, for every time you inject insulin. I do not know any experienced diabetic that do that at all. If that really was required (to avoid infections, etc), then the pens would never have become as popular as they are today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celsus, post: 864510, member: 185674"] Using AccuCheck Mobile. 50 bg tests in the built-in test-strip module. The finger pricker is built in, with a drum of 6 lancets. The 50 tests typically lasts for 8-10 days for me, and I change then both the test-strip module and the lancet drum. Sometimes I have by then not even gone through using all 6 lancets. The manufacturers advise you to change for every single time you test. (they have to, for regulatory safety reasons) and so do medical staff. If you change every time or not does not impact the read result. Except if your fingers are really dirty and/or your immune system down, then you do not really need to change that often. Its more then a question about your own comfort. I change when I feel the lancet starts to be a bit blunt. (it starts to punch a bit more clumsy/painful through the skin). So with all the above in mind, I change the lancet for every 8-14 pricks. Same thing with the insulin pen: All manufacturers (to make more money than they already do, on all the gadgets we buy from them) and medical staff also say you should change the needle on your pen, for every time you inject insulin. I do not know any experienced diabetic that do that at all. If that really was required (to avoid infections, etc), then the pens would never have become as popular as they are today. [/QUOTE]
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