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Here are some tips for making your glucose monitoring sting does not hurt.

The only way you can know if you are controlling your diabetes is through self-monitoring, that means you have to sting your finger at least once a day. This procedure is uncomfortable for people with diabetes because it is painful, but here we offer a guide to hurt a little less:

• Wash your hands with warm water to increase blood flow to the fingers.

• Before the puncture, stretch your arm down and squeeze the tip of the finger to swell with blood. • Sink your finger to the side and not in the center. The fingertips have many nerve endings which causes the needle hurt more. If you make one side feel a picket smaller because you do not have much feeling in that area.

• Before taking the fingerstick, extend your arm downward and pull the tip of the finger to swell with blood.

• Use both sides of every finger, rotating the sites, so that each finger touches the puncture less frequently.

• Preferred acquires a meter that requires less blood.

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