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Accu Chek Performa Blood Glucose Meter
The Accu Chek Performa is a high tech easy to use blood glucose meter that allows people who need to know and track the glucose levels in their blood to do so with convenience and simplicity.Produced by Roche Diagnostics out of Germany, this meter is made in the United States and is one of the most accurate and reliable ways to monitor glucose levels in the blood.
Control Testing – Ensuring Accuracy
To ensure the accuracy of test results control testing is used to determine whether the meter is providing accurate and reliable results. This not only establishes that the meter is working correctly but that the test strips are working properly.
Before you begin a control test you will want to make sure that the test strips are not expired, that they’ve been stored in a cool dry place between 36 and 89 degrees Fahrenheit (2 to 32 degrees Celsius) and that the number on the test strip matches the number on the container it came from.
It is also important that you only use accu chek performa test strips and control solutions when performing a control test or you will get inaccurate results.
Precise Results
You can feel very confident that the results that you are getting from your meter are precise and can be used by you to monitor yourself as well as being used by medical professionals to monitor your condition.
Precision is in large part because the meter monitors itself for any faults or errors that could be occurring within the unit as well as having a code chip that is specific to the container of test strips that it is calibrated to.
Of course the meter results are only as good as it is used, so if you follow the simple instructions and use the code chip and test strips you can know that you are getting precise results. You can perform a control test anytime you wish to verify that your meter is reading within the specified parameters.
Tracking Results
If you have type 2 diabetes or are pre-diabetic it is possible that you can reverse your condition by losing weight, exercising, keeping your cholesterol under control among other things like your diet, that your doctor would direct you to do.
The cool thing is that this meter keeps five-hundred test results stored in it’s memory, if that is what you’d like it to do, so you can track your results to see what kind of progress you are making.
It also will transfer the results to a PDA or computer, with the necessary software, if you or your doctor wants to chart your results.
If you are saving your test results in the memory function and you need to change the battery, it will not lose your test results.
Of course if you are a type 1 diabetic all these features are there for you aw well, to help you track your results. This meter will also give you averages of your results, so you can see them quickly, without transferring the test results, how you’ve been doing over a certain period of time.
The flagging feature is also very convenient, so that if you have a special day or event and you know your results will be out of the norm for whatever reason, you can flag those test for that reason.
Keeping You Safe & On Time
Finally this meter also has a clock and calendar feature that you will want to make sure is set and accurate if you are tracking your results and using the alarm feature.
You can set the alarm to remind you when to perform a test as well as set it to sound if your results are above or below a range you input into the meter. Of course you will want to speak with your health care provider to determine what glucose levels you would want to set your low and high levels at.
Even if you do not set any of the alarms and the beeper is off the unit will still beep if there is an error while testing.
Conclusion
While there certainly is a lot more to write about, it is easy to see that the glucose meter more than delivers with ease of use, reliability and accuracy.