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Finger pricking Be honest

Do you wash your hands before you do a finger prick test

  • Yes

    Votes: 11 31.4%

  • Usually

    Votes: 5 14.3%

  • Sometimes

    Votes: 13 37.1%

  • No

    Votes: 6 17.1%
  • Total voters
    35
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SB2015 said:
The theory is so different to practice, since we need to live with it. It would be interesting to know whether newbies are still told to wash hands before each test

I found a dried out cotton ball looking very suspect in a bag in the bottom of a rucksack I have not used for many years (too small now!!)
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Was certainly never mentioned to me
 
I always rinse my hands (unless I can't, in which case an alcohol swab). It does make a difference, 9 times out of 10, if I get an unexpected reading a retest will bring the reading closer to what I'm expecting.
 
I had a hypo whilst guiding 50 kids around Vimy Ridge last year - swigged on a bottle of Lucozade, waited 15 mins whilst they completed a few activities and felt fine. Finger pricked when I got back to the coach and had a reading of 24. All very confusing! I then realised my hands were sticky and remembered when I opened the bottle, the Lucozade had spilt on my hand (washed my hands and retested, showed up as a 9!) Always tried to remember to wash my hands since!
 
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