Is it safe to prick yourself with those at home diabetes tests that someone else used?

is it safe to prick yourself with those at home diabetes tests that someone else used? is it the same needle that goes into you that went into the other person? also the plastic sheet that collects ur blood is a new sheet used each time???

no you should use a new lancet (needle) and use a new test strip when testing otherwise you could get a disease or your results will not be accurate.

I share my multiclix pen occasionally. To do that, I take OFF my usual blue tip and use the (freshly cleaned with alcohol) clear tip, AND spin to a new lancet.

Never share the tip of a lancet device- we DO get blood on those, and never re-use lancets on a different person.

If you don't have a device that makes it easy to do this, either A: just use the lancet, which while a lot more painful than a test done with a lancet pen, is clean or B: buy a glucose meter with it's own lancet pen- they're usually equal to or less than the cost of the pen regardless, might as well get free test strips out of it.

Once the issue of a clean lancet pen is taken care of, please be sure to either wipe down the meter itself with alcohol or have the person who owns the meter handle it for you- we often grab meters with our 'freshly pricked' fingers, and there may be blood on it's case.

The test strip itself is not a problem. Since you must always use a new one, there is 0 chance of cross-contamination.

So long as you use a new lancet in the pricking device (or just the lancet) each time, and a new test strip, after cleaning the unit with an antiseptic solution you should be ok. Never use any part of any medical device that has been in contact with someone else's body fluids, since that can expose you to disease.

Well it is if you either wash the lancet (needle) or you change it with a new one. Yes it would be the same needle that went into the last person, the test strip or the plastic sheet as you called it is what collects the blood so you need to use a different one each time.

Never!
Even if they haven't got any diseases that they're aware of, they can still have more immunity to the disease or any other bacteria their blood carries than you do.
Always use steril materials when piercing your body in any way.

no its not the same needle, everything is new and sterile

NO!
You can get ANY disease that they may have, including AIDS.
They might have a disease they don't even know about.

not safe to use someone else's needle. and yes you do need a new sheet each time

you should always change the lancet and strip