{"id":14147,"date":"2011-02-15T08:16:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T13:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147"},"modified":"2016-09-25T05:27:03","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T09:27:03","slug":"use-the-first-drop-of-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147","title":{"rendered":"Use the First Drop of Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DropofBlood2.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14170 lazyload\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" title=\"DropofBlood\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DropofBlood2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>A recent study published in <a href=\"http:\/\/care.diabetesjournals.org\/content\/early\/2011\/02\/01\/dc10-1694.abstract\">Diabetes Care<\/a> investigated whether\u00a0 capillary glucose concentrations, as measured in the first and second drops of blood, differed more than 10 percent when compared with a control glucose concentration in different situations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the study capillary glucose concentrations were measured in two consecutive drops of blood in 123 patients with diabetes in the following circumstances: without washing hands, after exposing the hands to fruit, after washing the fruit-exposed hands, and during application of different amounts of external pressure around the finger. The results were compared with control measurements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The results showed that not washing hands led to a difference in glucose concentration of more than 10 percent in the first and in the second drops of blood in 11 percent and 4 percent of the participants, respectively. In fruit-exposed fingers, these differences were found in 88 percent and 11\u00a0 percent of the participants, respectively. Different external pressures led to greater than 10 percent differences in glucose concentrations in 5\u201313 percent of the participants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers concluded the study with the following recommendation:\u00a0 Wash hands with soap and water, dry them, and use the first drop of blood for self-monitoring of blood glucose. If washing hands is not possible, and they are not visibly soiled or exposed to a sugar-containing product, it is acceptable to use the second drop of blood after wiping away the first drop. External pressure may lead to unreliable readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study published in Diabetes Care investigated whether  capillary glucose concentrations, as measured in the first and second drops of blood, differed more than 10 percent when compared with a control glucose concentration in different situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1437],"tags":[418],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blood Glucose Monitoring: Use the first drop of blood<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Diabetics should wash hands with soap and water, dry them, and use the first drop of blood for self-monitoring of blood glucose...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jessica Apple\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147\",\"name\":\"Blood Glucose Monitoring: Use the first drop of blood\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DropofBlood2-rotated.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-02-15T13:16:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-09-25T09:27:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1f33fe649de04a31a493d746b6e72607\"},\"description\":\"Diabetics should wash hands with soap and water, dry them, and use the first drop of blood for self-monitoring of blood glucose...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DropofBlood2-rotated.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DropofBlood2-rotated.jpg\",\"width\":300,\"height\":200},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14147#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Use the First Drop of Blood\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/\",\"name\":\"ASweetLife\",\"description\":\"The Diabetes Magazine\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/1f33fe649de04a31a493d746b6e72607\",\"name\":\"Jessica Apple\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c10409e04c60ee9e1a01fbe9c4a704b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c10409e04c60ee9e1a01fbe9c4a704b9?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jessica Apple\"},\"description\":\"Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. 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