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The FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system is designed to liberate patients from the hassles of glucose monitoring.

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Every day, we are constantly striving to innovate and improve our blood glucose meters to make sure we provide you with products you can rely on to effectively manage your diabetes.

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What is Diabetes

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Diabetes is a lifelong condition where the amount of glucose in your blood is too high due to your pancreas either not producing any insulin, or not enough insulin, to help glucose enter your body’s cells – or the insulin that is produced does not work properly (known as insulin resistance).

Type 1 Diabetes
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What Makes Glucose Levels Rise and Fall?
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What Should My Glucose Be?
Hypoglycaemia
Hyperglycaemia

Living with Diabetes

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Diabetes doesn't have to stop you from living the life you want. With help from your care team and careful management, you can be in control of your diabetes and ensure it doesn't control you - allowing you to stay healthy, active and live life to the fullest.

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Coping With Morning Sickness
Delivery and Your New Baby
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What is Diabetes
Type 1 Diabetes
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What is insulin?
Gestational Diabetes
What Makes Glucose Levels Rise and Fall?
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What Happens if You Don't Treat Your Diabetes?

Living with Diabetes
Managing and Monitoring
Food and Drink
Health Living
Diabetes and Pregnancy
Children and Diabetes
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Getting Started
Interstitial Fluid vs. Blood Glucose
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What Makes Glucose Levels Rise and Fall?
What Should My Glucose Be?
Hypoglycaemia
Hyperglycaemia

Managing and Monitoring
Ketone Testing
Continuous Glucose Monitoring
Glucose Testing
Understanding Your Blood Glucose Results
Looking After Yourself
Looking After Your Eyes
Looking After Your Feet

Food and Drink
Healthy Eating
What's In Your Food?
Alcohol
The Glycaemic Index

Health Living
Exercise
Weight
Smoking
Relationships
Driving
Travelling
Partying
Stress
Support Groups

Diabetes and Pregnancy
Controlling Your Blood Glucose
Healthy Living
Taking Care When You Are Ill
Avoiding Hypoglycemia
Coping With Morning Sickness
Delivery and Your New Baby
Your Health After Giving Birth
Diabetes and Breastfeeding

Children and Diabetes
What Can I Do To Help My Child?
Kids Food
Child Diabetes Treatment
Blood Glucose Meters
Insulin Adjustment
Exercise and Your Child
When Your Child Is Ill

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Flash Glucose Monitoring System

Why prick when you can scan?*

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* Scanning the sensor to obtain glucose values does not require lancets ×

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Flash Glucose Monitoring System

Why prick when you
can scan?1

The days of routine glucose
testing with lancets, test strips and blood are over.2

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*1. Scanning the sensor to obtain glucose values does not require lancets 2. A finger prick test using a blood glucose meter is required during times of rapidly changing glucose levels when interstitial fluid glucose levels may not accurately reflect blood glucose levels, or if hypoglycemia or impending hypoglycemia is reported but the symptoms do not match the system readings. ×

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