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About Alternate Site Testing (AST)

About Alternative Site Testing (AST)
There are important limitations to AST. Please consult your
healthcare professional before you perform AST.
What is AST?
Alternate Site Testing (AST) means you can use parts of the
body other than your fingertips to check your blood
glucose levels. The Prodigy AutoCode
test on your palm, forearm, upper arm, calf or thigh.
See Figure 1.
What is the advantage?
Fingertips feel pain more readily
because they are full of nerve
endings (receptors). At other body
sites, nerve endings are not so
numerous and you will not feel as
much pain as you will experience at
the fingertip.
When to use AST?
Food, medication, illness, stress,
and exercise can affect blood
glucose levels. Capillary blood at
the fingertip reflects these changes
faster than capillary blood at other sites.
Therefore, if you are testing your blood glucose level
during or immediately after a meal, physical exercise
or stressful event, take the blood sample from your
fingertip only.
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Figure 1
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