Attaching flags or comments to your results:
- Your OneTouch® Ultra® 2 Meter allows you to attach optional notes to any blood glucose test result. There are two kinds of notes and different reasons to apply them.
- Note Type: Meal Flag
- Recommendation: Add a meal flag to every blood glucose result.
- Benefit: Allows you to link the effects of food to your blood glucose result. Provides you with separate averages for before-meal and after-meal tests.
- Note Type: Comment
- Recommendation: Select an appropriate comment whenever you test under conditions that you or your health care professional feel are worth noting.
- Benefit: Helps track possible reasons for test results
- We suggest you talk to your health care professional to see how meal flags and comments may help you manage your diabetes.
- You can attach these notes just after a blood glucose test before you remove your used test strip from your meter. You can also modify notes when reviewing a past result.
- You will not be able to add a meal flag or comment to a result marked as a control solution test.
- You can choose not to attach a meal flag or comment after a blood glucose test. If you do not want to use this feature at all, you can turn it off so the meter will not prompt you to add notes or to select a type of result average to review.
Add or change a meal flag:
- If the flags/comments feature is turned on, the up arrow at the bottom right corner of the result screen will flash when a result is first displayed to remind you to enter a meal flag.
- To add or change a meal flag:
1. While viewing a result, press ↑ to display the MEAL FLAG screen
2. Press ↑ or ↓ to highlight BEFORE MEAL or AFTER MEAL
- If you decide not to assign a flag to this result, select NO FLAG.
3. To confirm your selection, press OK
- The meal flag you chose will appear above the result on the result screen.
- Note: Testing after a meal can show how the food you ate affects your blood glucose. These results can be flagged as AFTER MEAL and are usually obtained two hours after the start of the meal. Your health care professional may suggest another time period or other use for this feature.
Add or change a comment:
- The down arrow at the bottom right corner of the result screen will flash after you enter a meal flag for a new result to remind you to consider entering a comment.
- To add or change a comment:
1. While viewing a result, press ↓ to display the COMMENT screen
2. Press ↑ or ↓ to highlight an appropriate comment
- The available choices are:
- NO COMMENT
- STRESS
- ILLNESS
- NOT ENOUGH FOOD
- TOO MUCH FOOD
- FEEL HYPO
- MILD EXERCISE
- HARD EXERCISE
- MENSES (period)
- VACATION
- MEDICATION
- OTHER
- Highlight NO COMMENT if you decide not to add a comment, or if you want to erase a previously entered comment from the result.
- Use OTHER when the available choices do not apply. You may want to write down what OTHER means to you so you can discuss it with your health care professional.
3. To confirm your selection, press OK
- The comment you chose will appear below the result.
