FAQs

<p>The user will receive an E-4 error code.</p>

<p>Yes, as with any test strip, heat, humidity and other environmental conditions can affect strips.</p>

<p>No, there is no ability to squeeze extra blood from the finger to dose a strip a second time.</p>

<p>The Accu-Chek Instant system was designed to assist users to easily conduct a test. Several features were designed for this purpose:</p><ul><li>Easy-edge test strip has a wide application area compared to leading brands</li><li>Strips are placed electrode end down in the vial, so that they can be inserted easily into the meter with minimal handling</li><li>The used strip can easily and hygienically be removed from the meter with the strip ejector</li></ul>

<p>The Accu-Chek Instant test strip requires only a small speck of blood (0.6 μL).</p>

<p>The Accu-Chek Instant test strip utilises the FAD-GDH chemistry.</p>

<p>Yes, any time the meter is on, the battery is being consumed whether searching for a paired device or uploading results.</p>

<p>The Accu-Chek Instant meter requipowerres two batteries to power the features of the meter, such as the backlit display and Bluetooth^® connectivity.</p>

<p>The meters will retain the date and time settings for up 40 seconds when the batteries are removed.</p>

<p>Test results may be seen in 7, 14, 30 and 90-day averages.</p>

<p>720 readings can be viewed and stored in the meter.</p>

<p>Yes, the target ranges in the meter can be changed using the device settings on the mySugr app.</p>

<p>Being too low is life threatening for people with diabetes. Therefore, red has been chosen to be the colour indicating “danger".</p>

<p>In range: 3.9-8.9 mmol/L, below range: 0.6-3.8 mmol/L, above range: 9.0–33.3 mmol/L.</p>

<p>The Accu-Chek Instant meters has a fast test time of less than four seconds.</p>

<p>No, the USB port for any of the Accu-Chek meters is not water or dust resistant.</p>

<p>With the Accu-Chek Instant meter, it is not necessary to delete stored results. Once 720 blood glucose results are in the memory; adding a new result causes the oldest one to be deleted.</p>