Test strips have an expiration date like everything else. If you’re considering selling your unused, unwanted, or unneeded test strips, it’s essential that you do so while they still have a sufficient expiration date.
Test strips that are past the expiration date may not provide the accurate blood glucose reading that people with diabetes need to manage their disease. Diabetic test strips may appear simple, but they’re really high-tech medical devices. The manufacturing process is much more complicated than even diabetics may realize and represent precise pieces of engineering.
Diabetes testing has undergone radical changes through the years. Until the development of insulin, it still remained a virtual death sentence. During the Franco-Prussian War, physicians noticed that people with diabetes did better during the food rationing that took place. Unfortunately, it also led to fad diets popular in the 1900s that did more harm than good and the testing process was still fairly primitive by today’s standards.
Diabetic test strips are manufactured with an enzyme and stabilizing chemicals that create an electrochemical reaction that’s read by a glucose monitor. Those enzymes and stabilizing chemicals have a specific shelf life in which they return an accurate result. Those elements break down past the expiration date.
The manufacturers of test strips utilize their own proprietary combination of chemicals, each of which is stable over varying lengths of time. Being able to sell your test strips successfully will rely heavily on the time left before the expiration date on the box. It’s essential that the test strips aren’t near or at their expiration date so they’ll provide accurate results. Anything less will result in serious health consequences for diabetics.
Selling your test strips is a good way to put some extra cash in your pocket and it provides an immensely important opportunity for those with diabetes that may not be able to afford expensive co-pays, are underinsured or lack insurance entirely. For diabetics, test strips are a life-saving necessity.
If you would like to find out about earning cash for your unwanted, unused and boxed test strips, complete our online quote form today.
If you have extra, unopened and unused boxes of diabetic test strips – whether you have switched brands, no longer need to test or test less frequently, or have a loved one who has passed away – don’t let them gather dust until they’ve expired and end up in the trash. We’re the best place to sell diabetic test strips online, and if you want to sell your test strips, we’re here to make the process easy and enjoyable!
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