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How to test your blood glucose (sugar) levels

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How to test your blood glucose (sugar) levels

4,884,531 views November 6, 2011 2:53

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In brief

You’ll learn how to accurately test your blood glucose levels using a meter, strips, and a lancing device—ideal for managing diabetes or monitoring health. Benedict Jephcote demonstrates the process with a OneTouch meter, showing how to record results in a diary for tracking.

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Watch a step by step guide on how to test your blood glucose levels. In order to perform a blood glucose test you will require your blood glucose meter, a test strip to hand, a lancing device and a monitoring diary to record the results of your blood glucose test.

Diabetes.co.uk's Benedict Jephcote runs through how to test your blood sugar. In this video, Benedict is using a OneTouch meter and test strips.

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Ben's blood glucose was 3.6 mmol/L (or 65 mg/dL) in this video. Learn about hypos (low blood glucose) at diabetes.co.uk/Diabetes-and-Hypoglycaemia.html

For those not in the UK, mmol/L is the UK standard unit. mg/dL is the American unit. You can convert between the two here: diabetes.co.uk/blood-sugar-converter.html

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Diabetes.co.uk published this 2:53 video tutorial on November 6, 2011. It has been watched 4,884,531 times on YouTube.

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