DO NOT test from alternate sites:
• During or less then two hours after eating, exercising, or taking medication.
• When you are ill.
• If you think your glucose level is low or you are unaware of your low blood glucose
condition.
• If you are examined for hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
• Within two hours after a short-acting or rapid-acting insulin analogues.
• Your AST test result do not match your health condition.
• You are operating machinery or driving a car.
Note:
• Repeat sampling from fingertip if your AST test result do not match your health condition.
• Repeat puncturing the same spot may cause soreness and calluses.
• If it is difficult to sample from alternative site, please sample from fingertip instead.
Palm sampling
Choose an area below your thumb or pinky finger, with
no visible veins and away from deep palm print.
Forearm sampling
Choose an area away from bone, visible veins and hair.
Please massage or warm the site to increase blood flow
in order to get sufficient amount of blood sample.
Lancing and sampling from an alternative site:
1.Repeat the steps1-7 in Chapter 3.2.
(Replace the lacing device tip with adjustable AST tip.)
2.Then press and hold the lancing device against your palm or forearm for
a few seconds, then press the release button.
3.Keep holding the sampling device and tip against your skin.Maintain
pressure until sufficient blood sample formed.
4.Carefully lift the lancing device away. Do not smear the blood sample.
5.Then repeat the steps 10 and 11 in Chapter 3.2.
Note:
• It may need to wait a little longer to get sufficient amount of blood sample from the palm
or forearm. Do not squeeze the site excessively.
• If the blood sample runs or spreads, do not use the sample. Try puncturing again in a
smoother area.
• If you still fail to get enough blood samples at the deepest setting of lancing device, please
try to get lancets in lower gauge.
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