One Touch Ultra 2 Blood Glucose Monitoring System
Posted by Amanda | Under Fat Loss Thursday Dec 24, 2009
- Fast, gentle and simple way to see the effects of food on your blood glucose level
- Need just a speck of blood from your finger, forearm, or palm
- Two-way scrolling buttons and a backlight make it easy to read and operate
- Includes educational Simple Start Diabetes+Food DVD and booklet that can help you manage your diabetes around meals
- Uses OneTouch Ultra Test Strips with FastDraw Design
Product Description
The OneTouch Ultra2 Blood Glucose Meter is a fast, gentle, simple and unique way to see the effects of food on your blood glucose results.
One Touch Ultra 2 Blood Glucose Monitoring System
One Touch Ultra 2 Blood Glucose Monitoring System is a real charm to use. The test strips only require a small speck of a sample. One drop of blood can easily make 10-15 or more samples for this meter, and it is fast.
The meter can hold 500 readings but you can’t do much with them without a data cable and software, that cost as much or more than the meter. The paper log book that comes with the unit to write down the readings this sophisticated instrument automatically stores with comments times and dates shows that marketing was all over this one to increase the bottom line.
This unit comes as a nice kit with zippered and velcro pouches for tucking the supplies away, but the whole thing is fiddley. You have to take everything out of the pouch and put it on another work surface to use it. Customers in a restaurant may not appreciate the production required and opting to do this in the car or public transport would be tricky. This one is probably the best, but all of these kits currently share this “User Convenience Problem”.
All in all I am happy with this Kit.
Rating: 4 / 5
I originally ordered this because I thought my One Touch Ultra was malfunctioning and not giving proper readings. I decided to upgrade to try the newest version and was really happy to receive my new monitor in the mail.
What I loved most about the Ultra 2 is that it uses the same test strips for One Touch Ultra, and the monitor allows you to add in comments describing the reading; one group of descriptions for pre or post meal, and another for how you’re feeling/why. Another boon is this monitor will give you averages based on the info you input.
As well, it turns out my readings were consistent on both monitors. This says to me the One Touch Ultra brand is sturdy and reliable. The old one was about a year old, and I dropped it a lot.
Rating: 4 / 5
Easy to use and very helpful showing you how what you eat can affect your blood sugar level. Small and compact, easy to carry around. Over all a great item.
Rating: 4 / 5
i have used this meter for quite some time and am very pleased with it.. i also own the ascensia breeze 1 & 2. i have never had a problem with the one touch ultra 2. it DOES NOT require a lot of blood at all and i have never wasted any strips with this meter.. the ascensia breeze 1 & 2 are great with the 10 test strip disc but i have wasted numerous test strips where i didnt have enough of a blood sample.. buy the one touch ultra 2, you wont be disappointed…
Rating: 5 / 5
I have been using the FreeStyle meter for several years, but wanted to try the UltraSmart meter. Don’t bother, it requires a pint of blood (yes I exaggerate) but I could only get a reading from 2 out of 10 trys. As I said, don’t bother with this meter. This will be money wasted for me, so you won’t have to also. I do need another meter, but I will getting another FreeStyle model.
Rating: 1 / 5