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Testing Blood Sugar Other Than Fingers. wash your hands. alternate site testing (ast) is testing blood sugar levels in areas other than your fingertips.

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by mayo clinic staff. people do not need to prick their fingers to test their blood sugar levels, but finger pricks may be useful to. Ast can be just as.

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Testing Blood Sugar Other Than Fingers by mayo clinic staff. the common belief, presently held by many endocrinologists, is that test blood, drawn from the fingertips, gives a more current and accurate. alternate site testing should only be used when your blood sugar is stable. Contamination of the fingers is a common culprit in blood sugar reading variability.