Q: You don’t need a prescription to buy a blood glucose meter. They typically cost between $10 and $75 (USD), and more expensive meters tend to be easier to read and more accurate.  You can also find glucose meters online, which will allow you to easily compare prices. Check if the product you purchase includes test strips. If you get a meter that doesn’t come with strips, you’ll have to buy strips that match that model. It's a good idea to check the price of strips before you choose a model, as this will affect the total amount you pay for the glucose meter. You may also be able to get a meter or strips that are covered by your insurance. Test your glucose levels in the morning after you’ve gone 8 hours without eating. Grease, dirt, and trace sugars on your skin can lead to inaccurate results, so wash up with soap and hot water before using the meter. Hot water and the motion of washing and drying your hands will also increase blood flow in your fingertips. Place the lancet into the lancet device, which is what you’ll use to prick your finger. Push the lancet into its slot until you hear a click, then remove the cap that covers the lancet. Steps vary by product, so read your specific model’s instructions before using it. Wipe your finger with an alcohol pad. Hold it against a tabletop with the bottom of your fingertip facing up. Hold the lancet to your fingertip and press the device’s button to prick yourself. Pricking the bottom of your finger just to the side (near the edge of your fingernail) can help prevent soreness. If you don’t see blood after pricking your finger, gently massage around the area until you see a drop of blood. Touch and hold the test strip to your fingertip to collect the droplet of blood. Promptly insert the test strip into the glucose meter. Test strips can’t be exposed to air for more than a couple of minutes before testing. After a few seconds, you should see your reading.  For a fasting blood glucose test, a reading lower than 100 mg/dL is normal. 100 mg/dL to 125 mg/dL may indicate prediabetes, and 126 mg/dL or higher could suggest diabetes. Since a high reading can result from a big meal the night before, make an appointment with your doctor to discuss your concerns, especially if your readings are consistently high. Repeat the test at least once to check your reading’s accuracy. A home test could give you an idea of your blood sugar levels, but home tests aren’t as accurate as getting screened by a doctor. Only a medical professional can diagnose you with diabetes.  If you test yourself at home and your numbers are high, schedule an appointment with your doctor and ask for a screening. To help your doctor make a better diagnosis, keep a food journal. Document what you ate, when you ate it, and when you tested your blood sugar. This will help your doctor determine if your high blood sugar readings are normal results from a meal or if they could be a symptom of diabetes.
A: Purchase a meter from your local pharmacy. Fast overnight and wash your hands before testing. Set up the lancet device. Sanitize your finger and prick it with the lancet. Place a droplet of blood onto the test strip. Insert the test strip into the meter. Remember that a home test can’t accurately diagnose diabetes.

Article: Go to the location of the PDF on your computer. Doing so will prompt a drop-down menu. On a Mac, just click the PDF once and then click File in the top-left corner of the screen. It's near the top of the right-click drop-down menu. A pop-out list will appear. On a Mac, you'll find this option near the top of the File drop-down menu. This option is in the pop-out list. On a Mac, you may click Microsoft Word here. This will allow Microsoft Word to open the PDF as a Word document. If you downloaded the PDF from online, you'll need to click Enable Editing at the top of the window and then click OK again before proceeding. As with any PDF conversion, the converted document may not have perfect page to page correspondence due to line breaks, page breaks, graphics, and so on; as such, some manual adjustment may be necessary. Once you're ready to save the converted file as its own Word document, do the following:   Windows — Click File, click Save As, double-click This PC, enter a file name, select a save location on the left side of the window, and click Save.  Mac — Click File, click Save As, enter a name, select a file location, and click Save.
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Find the PDF you want to open. Right-click the PDF. Select Open with. Click Word. Click OK when prompted. Edit the Word document if necessary. Save the converted PDF.

Q: Most credit cards (and other types of plastic cards) have a thickness of 30 mil, which comes out to around 0.76 millimeters (0.762 mm, to be exact). It isn’t the most exact measuring tool, but it may be close enough for tasks that require you to have a rough idea of how something measures up in millimeters.  If you don’t have a credit card handy, stack 10 sheets of 8 1⁄2 in (22 cm) x 11 in (28 cm) printer paper on top of each other to get a layer that’s about 1 millimeter thick. This may be harder to work with than a single plastic card, though. A “mil” is a little-used imperial unit that corresponds to one thousandth of an inch, and is not to be confused with millimeters. Align the outer edge of the card with your chosen starting point on the object. Imagine that the card is a ruler, and that the edge is the 0mm line. For this method, you’ll essentially be adding up 1 millimeter at a time in order to find the one of the object’s given dimensions. Run the tip of your writing utensil down the card to trace a line long enough to be plainly visible. This marks a distance of 0.762 millimeters between the end of the object and your first line. You’ll be drawing a number of lines quite close together, so use light pressure to make the line as thin as possible. Sharpening your pencil or using a pen with an ultra-fine point will help. This line will be 1.52 millimeters from your starting point. Reset your card on the far edge of your second line and draw another. Continue measuring and marking in small increments until you reach the end of the object, then count up the number of individual spaces.  Make sure you count the spaces between the lines and not the lines themselves, since there will be 1 too many. To increase your precision a bit, count every 4 lines as 3 millimeters total. This will help make up the difference, since the card isn’t exactly 1mm thick.
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Grab a normal credit card. Stand the card up on a piece of paper beside the object you’re measuring. Use a pen or pencil to draw a thin line along the inner edge of the card. Slide the card down to the other side of the line and repeat the process.