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Old 10-18-2010, 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by JenAjd View Post
I saw the article in today's Sun about this...so have a place to go! I test 2X daily and was told in my diabetes class never, EVER re-use the lancet!!! As someone said here you can get infection. Diabetics really are fragile people and it's a high-maintenance disease and nothing to be trifled with. For people who don't read the paper. We're to put the lancet's in a sealed plastic bag and there's a place just inside the door at TV-Hospital!!

I cannot believe someone would only test 2 or 3X per year!!!
I believe they were saying that they only use 2 or 3 lancets per year, reusing one for quite a long time before using a new one....not that they test only 2 or 3 times per year.
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