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If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, test your blood
glucose. If your blood glucose result is displayed as LO or HI and
you have symptoms of low or high blood glucose, contact your
doctor immediately. If your blood glucose result does not match
how you feel, follow the steps under „Unusual Test Results.“
Comparing your meter‘s result to a lab result:
In order to compare the results of your smartLAB
®
genie meter
with a laboratory meter, it must be guaranteed that both use
the same measuring method (whole blood measurement). Your
smartLAB
®
genie is a plasma calibrated meter. This makes it eas-
ier to compare its results to lab devices.
Your blood glucose can change quickly, especially after eating,
taking medication, or exercising. If you test yourself in the
morning, then go to the doctor‘s ofce for a blood glucose test,
the results will probably not match, even if you are fasting. This
is typically not a problem with your meter, it just means that
time has elapsed and your blood glucose has changed.
If you want to compare your meter result to the lab result, you
must be fasting. Take your meter to the doctor‘s ofce, and test
yourself by ngertip within ve minutes of having blood drawn
from your arm by a healthcare professional. Keep in mind that
the lab uses different technology than the meter, and that blood
glucose meters for self testing generally read somewhat lower or
higher than the lab result.
