Glucometers

The fingerprick. That moment which freaked us out in the early days of our diagnosis and which is now a part of our life.

Glucometers are the most simple way to measure blood glucose levels: you do a fingerprick, you apply a little drop of blood to a test strip which you plug into the glucometer and within some seconds you get the value of your BG.

Even though glucometers remain the most accurate way of measuring glycemia, they show an obvious and extremely limitating drawback: they expose the level at which your blood glucose is in that moment, not giving the slightest indication on the BG trend or on what has happened before the measure was made.

This is the reason why, today, they are an outdated way to keep track of glycemia, and they are mainly used as a calibration device for CGMs, which will be the subject of the very next articles.

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