I've always been a contact arm — a blood wiper, that is. Never a licker, operating theater someone who rubs my fingers together after a glucose test to get free of the nimiety blood.

Nope, in my 30+ years of doing blood tests, my unremarkable has typically been to just wipe my finished thumb along the inside of my meter case. Now and then, I've used tissues, a newspaper publisher towel, or even the bottom of my comfy billet chair.

This might sound gross to some. Then again again, for more fellow typecast 1 diabetics, a fewer drops of roue just aren't a big deal any longer — considering we thrustin our fingers so many multiplication a day.

Only now, there's a convenient new merchandise that gives us glucose-testers a more healthful way to get rid of that extra line on our fingers. Information technology's called Dabs (erst Sick Dabs in front going more mainstream), and these are created by a Massachusetts D-Mom called Liz Sacco. She's created a less "Miniature But Mighty" business knocked out of these dabs and is getting some pretty snazzy reviews by those in the Diabetes Community.

Liz started this all after her oldest of four sons, David, was diagnosed in March 2011 at 9 years old. While helping him with fingerstick tests, she realized they were having a constant struggle to find a clean and easy way for him to score out excess blood — non to mention a fashio to forbid him from wiping the blood on his knickers!

Necessity being the engender of invention, Liz came up with an idea for little matchbook-size pads of non-toxic, extremely-thirsty sheets that shoot up away after each use (or a few, in my case). Like Post-IT note pads, these have an viscid second that you can peel off and stick onto whatsoever blood glucose kit to deport with you easily. Liz says this invention made Saint David's daily testing process a good deal easier and cleaner and his clothes stayed blood-free.

Here's how Liz tells her story:

As anyone with diabetes can differentiate you, testing your profligate sugar levels is a regular part of every day. With David being a young and active boy, he tests his blood minimally six multiplication a day. I attempted to find an efficient solution to help simplify his examination routine. I tried placing a travel size up Kleenex in his case, which was overmuch besides cumbersome. I redact a single tissue paper in his pillowcase, which He would wastefully throw extinct after just i consumption. I matte up not only were we hard to balance his new lifestyle, but we had an added aggravation with where to wipe his finger's breadth after the blood glucose testing. Being a exemplary nine yr old boy, David resorted to wiping his finger on the at bottom of his pillowcase or on his clothes. Two years later o, with testing his blood minimally sixfold a daylight, that adds up to over 4,000 pieces of stained dress and a very blood-soaked case!

After diligently probing for two years for a solution to this simple trouble, I definite to develop Dabs. I started my company with the hopes of making a positive impact in the lives of those living with diabetes. As a member of the diabetes profession, I am passionate about portion to simplify and improve the lives of families like-minded ours. Per se, a dower of the proceeds from Dabs will be donated to diabetes enquiry.

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The Dabs traditionally came in little square pads, but they've as wel recently added new unsubdivided pads for a bit added fun. Liz tells us she hopes to preface straight much shapes out the road, too! Liz sent me a box of the original square Ill Dabs recently, and I have to admit that they're pretty handy. Naturally, my instinct is quieten to just wipe my finger on my case like I've forever done, sol I've been struggling a trifle to remember to use them.

Since I'm a Flintstones rooter, I couldn't resist tweaking the hallmark "Yabba Dabba Set" cheer into my ain variant, "Dabba Dabba Execute!" every time I did a blood test and wiped my finger on the dabs. For reasons I can't explain myself, I even went then far as to beautify the front of my dab-pads thereupon line and a little Flintstones image I printed up and pasted on.

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Get wind, even adult-up PWDs suchlike to have a trifle fun with their supplies! Ya know 🙂

Naturally, there are few suggestions I would offer Liz to consider for the future, to make Diabetic Dabs even better:

  • Even at the size of a matchbook, IT does look to be a broad launching pad for only a single leave out of blood. I used each embroider at least a few times before tearing IT off and starting a new one. So, maybe they could follow a little littler?
  • Whether I wiped my finger once or a few multiplication, the sheets are very hygroscopic and thin so they "bleed through" (ha!) to the succeeding one, and yet few layers through. I noticed that my little blood droplet seeped done to about the next four pads. Indeed if they don't indigence to be thicker, so perhaps we penury a sheet to protect the yet-unused pads — like the plastic sheet that checkbooks offer to protect the carbon imitate checks underneath the one you're writing on. Actually, I created my own resolution aside tearing polish off the little unlifelike compensate connected one launchpad and putting that in between the Splash sheets — and information technology worked perfectly!
  • I am not always the brightest bulb, and it took Pine Tree State thirster than it should have to work out out that the Dab pads have that adhesive backup you peel to expose the sticky part. Maybe there could exist a trifle note on the box that antimonopoly says, "Skin away mount" for those people the likes of me who just don't find it so plain.

Diabetic Dabs are really pretty affordable and you hind end social club online.

Spell prices motley by location and change over time, they're pretty cheap for 200 Beaver State 1,000 count boxes of Dabs…. Price checks show it's really only about 3-4 cents per wipe, and if you re-apply them, it's an eve better steal. Nice! And as mentioned higher up, a portion of the clear proceeds attend research, indeed you're not only helping out a D-Mom, but also a great cause.