You can also buy it in person at the CDE Pharmacy in Houghton, Johannesburg, or from M-Kem in Durbanville, Cape Town. Sensors are available online from the CDE Online Store (free shipping when you order two or more sensors) or Pharmacy Direct, a courier pharmacy that delivers anywhere in South Africa. Abbott (who manufactures the FreeStyle Libre system) have a free patient support programme that helps you to apply to your medical aid to get it covered. The FreeStyle Libre is not covered automatically by other medical aids at the moment. The FreeStyle Libre is now covered by Discovery Health as part of the Discovery CGM Benefit! Here are all the details about how to claim this benefit. Do medical aids cover the FreeStyle Libre?
#Freestyle libre flash glucose monitoring system calibration for free
The app, FreeStyle LibreLink is available to download for free on the App store or Google Play. The FreeStyle Libre replaces finger stick blood glucose testing**. Each sensor lasts two weeks, so you need two sensors a month. The sensor collects data on your blood glucose readings for 8 hours between scans, even while you sleep, so you have a constant picture of what your blood glucose is doing.
A one-second scan that you can repeat as many times as you like during the day. No finger sticks**, and no need to calibrate. Using a FreeStyle Libre reader or an app (on your compatible smartphone), you scan the sensor for a blood glucose reading. It is a small sensor (the size of a R5 coin) that you insert into the back of your upper arm. When you scan the FreeStyle Libre sensor with a FreeStyle Libre reader (or a compatible smartphone*) you get a glucose (blood sugar) reading. Here they are! What is the FreeStyle Libre?įreeStyle Libre is a flash glucose monitoring system. We have had so many people asking us about the FreeStyle Libre system – what it is, where you get it, how much it costs – that we asked Abbott, the manufacturers, for all the answers.