There are 2 different codes, one says purple meter the other says turbo, she has the purple meter but sets for the turbo meter number. I am confused

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Be very careful and test these vs the real alpha track strips. I have been testing these strips vs the alpha track strips for a few days. I take a drop of blood on the ear and check both strips , changing the meter coding between them.  On code 22 for cats they seem to be biased a bit low low at the low end, for example petsure might read 65 when the alpha track reads 72. That's ok. It warms you when your low. But at the high end it read 430 when the alpha track read 665. That's unacceptable. The alpha track reads similarly to my doctor's laboratory tests up in that region. So I have to believe that the alpha track is the one to believe. Clearly the #22 cal curve used by petsure has less slope than the alphtrack. This is unacceptable. At the bottom a small low bias is ok. When he reads below you take action (give him a snack or some glucose or corn syrup) to bring him up to the 80-300 range. Even if he's really 80 instead of 73 as the petsure strips might read that's actually ok. You just take action a little bit before you really had to. The most important region for a cat to read accurately is 80-300, which is where he can hopefully be kept. If the strips real low in the high range, that's a real problem. If he's reading 360, every morning and then drops to 100 when given insulin, I'm going to think that he's and that he only spends a few hours a day at 360. But if he's really at 550, that's a problem. If I think he's doing well and he's really out of control, he could suffer heart, kidney, liver and/or pancreas damage as well as neuropathy and my first indication would only come when I take him I to the vet every six months. We shall see if the turbo code works any better. But so far, me tests against the alpharrack strips show that these are not acceptable for cats.

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