Free Style Test Strips

Focus Express Mail Pharmacy carries most of Abbott Diabetes Care's diabetes products, including the FreeStyle and FreeStyle Flash glucose meters and test strips. FreeStyle test strips are unique, because they allow for very accurate testing with just a tiny amount of blood. FreeStyle test strips use "coulometry," which is a type of electro analytical/chemical testing. How does this special testing method benefit you?

It enables you to take an accurate glucose test without pricking your fingertip. Traditionally, people with diabetes had to prick their fingertips for blood samples because fingertips are packed with capillaries. Unfortunately, they are also packed with nerve endings. Fingertips produce large drops of blood, but pricking them produces a lot of pain, too. Many people with diabetes put off testing their blood as often as they should for this exact reason: they want to avoid the pain.

With FreeStyle glucose meters and test strips, people with diabetes can take blood samples from upper arms, forearms, thighs, calves, or even the fleshy parts of their hands. Of course, they can still use the fingertips if they choose. Testing with the FreeStyle is virtually pain free. You'll only need a sample size that's about as large as the head of a pin (1/3 microliter).

If you hate the pain of testing your blood, or if you've ruined too many outfits with messy blood testings, then the FreeStyle may be right for you. Focus also has the FreeStyle Flash, which is even tinier than the FreeStyle. The FreeStyle Flash weighs only 1.4 ounces, and is just three inches tall.