“Malathy, why should you poke my finger tip always to extract blood?” complains my husband. He is terrified to poke his finger on his own to take blood to test his blood glucose. He seeks my assistance.
This weekly ritual ends with his complaint and I too go silent because I don’t know the answer. But my husband should be right. Why we are not allowed to take the blood from other parts of the body such as forearm, upper arm, thigh, calf and fleshy part of the hand to eliminate the pain?
The Internet has plenty of answers for me. Yes, there are test strips that are called ‘Freestyle test strips’ that allow people with diabetes to take a blood sample from multiple sites of their body.
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AllegroMedical.com offers 55,000 products, under 50 medical equipment categories and hundreds of sub-categories. This is quite impressive really-isn’t it?
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