At present, the main products of Hainice Biotechnology (Dandong) Inc. are blood glucose meters and test strips. The company serves the public with the production concept of "technology is people-oriented and striving for perfection". The product technology is constantly innovated, bringing the gospel of health to the vast number of users.
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You’ve Been Pricking Your Finger Wrong for Years.
Edit date：2026-03-16
A friend with diabetes told me he tests his blood sugar four times a day, every day, for eight years.
His fingertips are covered in hard, calloused spots.
I asked him: “Where exactly do you prick your finger?”
He held out his hands — all the marks were dead center of his fingertips, little white dots all over.
I said: “That’s the most sensitive area — the VIP pain zone.”
He was shocked. He’d never even thought about it.
Truth is, many people have been testing for 10 years and still do it the most painful way.
Today, I’m not talking about meters.
I’m talking about making that one small prick hurt less.
1. Choose the right spot — cut pain in half
The very center of your fingertip has the most nerve endings.
Prick there, and pain is guaranteed.
The real low-pain zone is the side of your fingertip —
the fleshy, thick part just off the center, where nerves are fewer, pain is milder, and you still get a good blood drop.
Don’t go too close to the nail — skin is thin, hard to clean, and blood is hard to draw.
Rotate all 10 fingers. Most people avoid the outer sides of the thumb and little finger, leaving you 8 fingers to cycle through each week.
2. Warm hands first — blood flows easier
The hardest part about winter isn’t the prick — it’s getting no blood at all.
Don’t squeeze hard.
When hands are cold, blood vessels tighten.
If you squeeze hard, the sample mixes with tissue fluid, and your reading can run falsely low.
Wash your hands with warm water, rub them together, or shake your arms.
Wait until your fingertips are slightly pink.
Blood should flow out naturally, not be squeezed out.
3. Deeper is NOT better on your lancing device
Many people think: No blood? I need a deeper setting.
They turn it up higher and higher — still no blood, just more pain.
Depth is only part of it.
Find your perfect setting: the smallest level that lets a full, clean drop of blood form on its own.
One more tip:
When gently pressing for blood, squeeze half a centimeter away from the prick site, pushing lightly toward the tip.
Squeezing too close crushes the blood vessel and traps the blood inside.
A little from the heart
These details are all in the instructions, but almost no one reads them.
When it comes to blood glucose monitoring, it really comes down to two things:
Accuracy… and not suffering unnecessarily.
Accuracy is what Hainice promises.
We’re a trusted manufacturer based in Dandong, China, with full medical device certifications and a 100,000-class clean production workshop.
Every product goes through strict quality checks before leaving the factory — that’s our responsibility.
But how much it hurts, how easily blood flows, whether your reading truly reflects your condition —
these are the things that affect you every single day.
We build glucose meters.
But our real hope? That you don’t have to rely on them more than necessary.