Is There Any Way to Use Glucose Test Strips Without a Diabetic Meter?
I found a science fair project online that’s testing the glucose levels in fruits. It told me that I needed glucose test strips, and glucose tablets, fruit, and that’s all. I bought the strips, and when I tried them, nothing happened. There was also nothing in the directions about a color code system or anything on how to get results, just how to put it into a meter and stuff. I bought Walgreens Brand Blood Glucose Test Trips : Truetrack. I have no experience with diabetes. The test strips were expensive enough, and I’d REALLY like to not have to buy a meter. If the test strips absolutely REQUIRE a meter, do you have any ideas whatsoever to what I should do from here? Thank you SO much!!!
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_ideas/FoodSci_p049.shtml?fave=no&isb=c2lkOjEsaWE6Rm9vZFNjaSxwOjIscmlkOjU5Mzk0Njg&from=TSW
Here’s the website with the project information if you need it.
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Sorry hon! you must get the proper meter to use the test strips as they are coded to certain meters and won’t work otherwise.
But the test strips usually read only to about 400, some of them read to 600 then they read HI which is not a greeting.
Since you have opened the package of strips, they are non-returnable. So you will just have to bite the bullet and buy the Truetrack meter that matches your strips.
The old urine test strips had a color code system with them and did not require a meter. They measure sugar levels above 300 and very inaccurately at that. These are what the article was refering to.
I’m presuming that you’re in the United States, dear lady, seeing as the Science Buddies website gives values in $ (dollars).
If you take a look at the following page, it seems that there’s a website that will give you up to 5 test strips of the type that you need. (They are urinalysis test strips for glucose, but instead of peeing on them you can measure the amount of glucose in a substance such as water or juice.)
I’m sorry that you’ve wasted money on the test strips that you’ve bought/paid for, but Miz Lamb is correct, they’ll only work with a meter and, to me, that’s something beyond what you’re setting out to achieve, although this would be a more accurate way of determining the glucose concentration.
Best of luck with your project, sweetheart … and I offer that as a general term of endearment. It is NOT intended to be offensive, obnoxious, condescending, or sexist … though, I must admit, I have yet to use it to an adult male, apart from my own two grown up sons and one of their friends who I’ve unofficially ‘adopted’.