User manual LIFESCAN ULTRA2

[. . . ] Blood Glucose Monitoring System Owner's Booklet Welcome to the OneTouch® family! We know diabetes can be difficult to understand and manage. The right products and services can help make life with diabetes just a little bit easier. We designed this product to make testing easy and to help you manage your diabetes. This owner's booklet is designed to provide the information that you are looking for, when you need it. [. . . ] Used test strips and lancets may be considered biohazardous waste in your area. Be sure to follow your local regulations for proper disposal. 33 Applying blood and reading results Attaching flags or comments to your results Your meter allows you to attach optional notes to your blood glucose result. There are two kinds of notes and different reasons to apply them. Note type Recommendation Meal Flag Add a meal flag to every blood glucose result. Benefit Allows you to link the effects of food to your blood glucose results. Provides you with separate averages for before-meal and after-meal tests. Comment Helps track possible reasons Select an appropriate for test results. comment whenever you test under conditions that you or your healthcare professional feel are worth noting. 34 You can attach these notes just after a blood glucose test before you remove your used test strip from your meter. You will not be able to add a meal flag or comment to a result marked as a control solution test. The following pages explain what kinds of flags and comments can be attached to a result and how you may use them. 35 Attaching flags or comments to your results Attaching flags or comments to your results Add or change a meal flag If the flags/comments feature is turned on, the up arrow at the bottom right corner of the result screen will flash when a result is first displayed to remind you to enter a meal flag. Press or to highlight BEFORE MEAL or AFTER MEAL If you decide not to assign a flag to this result, select NO FLAG. To confirm your selection, press The meal flag you chose will appear above the result on the result screen. NOTE: Testing after a meal can show how the food you ate affects your blood glucose. These results can be flagged as AFTER MEAL and are usually obtained two hours after the start of the meal. Your healthcare professional may suggest another time period or other use for this feature. 36 Add or change a comment The down arrow at the bottom right corner of the result screen will flash after you enter a meal flag for a new result to remind you to consider entering a comment. Press or to highlight an appropriate comment Attaching flags or comments to your results The available choices are: NO COMMENT STRESS NOT ENOUGH FOOD ILLNESS TOO MUCH FOOD FEEL HYPO MILD EXERCISE MENSES (period) HARD EXERCISE VACATION MEDICATION OTHER Highlight NO COMMENT if you decide not to add a comment, or if you want to erase a previously entered comment from the result. You may want to write down what OTHER means to you so you can discuss it with your healthcare professional. 3. To confirm your selection, press The comment you chose will appear below the result. 37 Reviewing past results and averages If you have just completed a test, press to get to the MAIN MENU screen. From the MAIN MENU screen you can choose: · LAST RESULT to view your most recent result, · ALL RESULTS to review up to 500 of your most recent results four at a time, or · RESULT AVG to select one of three types of result averages. This result will include the unit of measure and the date and time of the test. If the result was marked as CONTROL SOLUTION or with either a meal flag or comment, these notes will be shown as well. If you wish to add or change a meal flag or comment for this result, see pages 36­37. 38 All results The meter will display four results at a time, in the order the tests were done, starting with the most recent. For each test result, the meter will display the date and time of the test. Results may also contain the following symbols: HI if the result was above 33. 3 mmol/L, LO if the result was below 1. 1 mmol/L, if a comment has been chosen for the result, C if the result is from a control solution test, ­ if the result is flagged BEFORE MEAL, and + if the result is flagged AFTER MEAL. The meter stores a maximum of 500 blood glucose or control solution test results. When the memory is full, the oldest result is dropped as the newest is added. [. . . ] Saunders Company (1994), 959. 63 · Your hematocrit (percentage of your blood that is red blood cells) is high (above 55%) or low (below 30%). · You are severely dehydrated. · You tested at a temperature near the low end of the operating Detailed information about your system range (6°C) and you get a high glucose result (i. e. , greater than 10 mmol/L). In this situation, repeat the test in a warmer environment with a new test strip as soon as possible. For accuracy and precision data and for important information on limitations, see the insert that comes with your test strips. [. . . ]