Diabetes Management

The range covers blood glucose and ketone meters, test strips, lancets and lancing devices.

A blood glucose meter reads the sugar level in a drop of blood. A ketone meter reads something different, which is whether your body has started breaking down fat for energy. A reading that is rising on both matters more than either on its own, and is worth acting on.

Test strips are specific to the meter they were made for. Strips from one brand will not give a correct reading in another brand’s meter, and in most cases simply will not fit.

Strips also have an expiry date and, once a pot is opened, a shelf life that is shorter than the printed date. Testing with strips that are past either reads inaccurately.