HSBHM-102 Home Care Portable Blood Hemoglobin Analyzer Anemia Hb Test Check Kit Handheld Finger Prick Meter Easy To Use Quick Results With 25Pcs Strips Lancets Droppers

My son has hemoglobin H disease and we need to test his hemoglobin when he gets a fever. This helps us save a trip to the drs office, or lets us know if we need to go straight to the childrens hospital. The results I've found are pretty close to accurate. Maybe with a variance of less than 1. It took a couple tries to figure out how to properly work this, but once I figured out how to get a proper reading, it works just as needed.

It works but it’s not easy. The suction tool required to put the blood on the test strip doesn’t work very well. It is not easy to use. However I love having the ability to monitor my iron at home. It conforms with my readings at the doctors office.

Worked 3 times then gave me a E6 error code stating the chip didn’t match. Would not recommend, cheaply made

I found the instructions easy to understand. It works well although my numbers were a tiny bit different a few days later when tested at a lab, but only by .04. I am happy with this purchase and would purchase again.

I've been using this meter for about six weeks. In parallel, I've had 8 "laboratory" measurements made over this time. Plotting couple of dozen datapoints taken with this small meter with the laboratory measurements - all of the meter hematocrit measurements were within about 5% of the laboratory measurements. So, the performance is good.However, the measurement depends on several "operator skills":• assembly of a lancet with fresh lances, and adjusting the required penetration depth• handling a 10µL glass micro-pipette - pulling up sample via capillary action, and transfer/deposition of 7-9µL onto a test strip within a 3mm target area• operation of a moderately complicated device, following experimental steps, & manipulating test strips (no moisture or alcohol contamination)• ability to obtain & use a blood droplet under sterile conditions, without contaminating the meter's analysis areaIn summary - I wouldn't necessarily recommend this meter as a REPLACEMENT for laboratory-based hemoglobin/hematocrit measurements. But - it is GREAT for rapid in-home monitoring, observing trends, and to give a warning that levels may need to be checked by a laboratory-analyzed sample. Very useful!

Well, I wanted this to work. I have used similar tests for blood glucose with great success after learning how to do the test. This one is similar, but a bit more complicated. The pipets supplied don't seem to work well, and it takes many tries to get the right amount of blood. Getting it from the pipet to the sample strip is even more problematic. This should be easy, but it's not. And the test seems to be very sensitive to having the right amount of blood in order to be accurate. When I finally got a good sample and test, the result is HCT of 39%. This compares to a blood test at Labcorp that showed 53.7% and a follow up a few days later at Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center that showed 50% (on a similar but professional grade machine). So there's really no way that in a few days my HCT dropped from ~50% to 39%. I will try again a few more times over the next several days to see if I can get a result that looks even remotely close to reality, but I'm thinking this was a wasted purchase. Also, the device used to stick your finger is kind of terrible. Even at the highest depth setting it seems to have issues breaking the skin sufficiently to get enough sample. On my next tries, I will use the finger stick that came with my glucose test kit - no issues getting enough blood with that one. One other note on the test strips. From the time you open the bottle, you only have 3 months to use the test strips before the bottle of them expires. This isn't very long, and you will need to buy new test strips. So this kit is really on useful if you need to check your HCT or Hemoglobin daily. If you intend to check only every couple of weeks, the test strips will expire after only ~9 tests. Bottom line - expensive and complicated to use and the test results don't seem to be accurate. :(

Pretty good little device. Accurate

This device just ok, hemoglobin numbers was accurate when I went for check up at my PCP comes with only 25 lancets and little tube to soak up the blood and apply to the strip which I don’t like because if you don’t do it correctly you can go through the strips very quickly. This machine is accurate when it comes to checking your hemoglobin levels. I went for a blood lab test and my numbers matched the machine so that’s good, now the strip and tube part is a bad design to me and not user friendly and can waste strips if you don’t do it correctly. It should be at 100 strips not only 25. I see on their site they have only 40 strips for $50. I’m dissatisfied with product when it comes to the amount strips and the tube to soak up the blood to apply on strips.