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Diabetic Strips

 

Diabetic strips also known as glucose test strips are used by diabetic patients to help them in monitoring their blood sugar levels so that they can be able to adjust easily. For example by either taking a shot of insulin or eating. Diabetic is a disease whereby the patient's blood glucose level is so high such that it ends up affecting the normal functioning of other blood cells because the tend to be hypertonic or highly concentrated than the adjacent cells and this make the hypertonic cells absorb water from other cells and this causes problems. Diabetic patients are this given insulin which they inject themselves with whenever the blood sugar levels are low so as to restore the normal glucose levels. The diabetic strips thus come in handy in such a situation. Once the strip shows  that there is less glucose in the body than normal, then the patient can take the insulin shot and vice versa.

 

These strips are calibrated so that it becomes easy for you to determine the readings so that you can know the glucose level in your blood. Once opened, these strips can only be of service within a period of 3-6 months after which they start being defective and this is due to the exposure of enzymes to environmental conditions that are unfavorable for a long time. Diabetic strips however, do not always give a correct reading and this might be associated with the following factors. For example the instability of the enzymes. When enzymes are exposed to harsh weather conditions for example too much cold or too much heat, this affects the enzymes and as a result they end up not being dysfunctional. For example too much heat causes the enzymes to be denatured while too much cold makes the enzymes to be deactivated. These are some of the things that make most glucose strips not to work as efficiently as required, sell your test strips here!

 

The issue of other blood components also comes in. For example the blood sample withdrawn from the patient might be having a high sugar components for example maltose and this might make the readings to appear as if the glucose level in the blood is high and yet that is not the case. This ends up compromising the credibility of the results obtained, get paid for strips today!

 

There is also the issue of calibration, incase the strips are not well calibrated, then it becomes difficult for you to read the results accurately.If you want to learn more about diabetic test strips, you can visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_strip.

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