Everyone deserves a vacation!  But admit it . . . travel can be a pain, or completely impossible if you don’t have the essentials for comfort, safety, convenience or mobility. Don’t despair.  Allegro has new and unique products to make your vacation not only possible but a whole lot easier and more comfortable.  Great gift ideas too. [...]

Rashy, itching, peeling, bumpy, burning, red, dry, scaly, scabby skin.  If you have any of these, you can bet there is a product to soothe or heal it.  Proper skin care can mean the difference between a good day and a very painful one.  Here are links to products that we hope will bring you blissfully fast [...]

Happy Heart Month!  What a blessing that just a few simple changes in your lifestyle can improve your chances of living a longer, healthier life.  The beauty is, anyone can make these changes, the steps are not expensive and even modest improvements will make a big difference.   The American Heart Association (AMA) calls them “The Simple 7″.  Seven [...]

Allegro is well-known for its low, low prices on diabetes supplies and is a reliable source for hundreds of customers who want a no-hassle, automatic delivery of their test strips right to their doorstep.  We know how important your testing is, and also how expensive it can get.  That’s why we keep our prices as low [...]

My parents used to tell great grandma to “stay out of the sugar!” whenever we left her house.  I wasn’t sure why they said it, but everyone got a kick out of it.  Great-grandma, I came to find out had ‘the sugar diabetes’ (pronounced dia-BEE-tuzz by my family) so she wasn’t allowed to eat a lot of sugar (horrors).  [...]

Diabetes is a very serious disease and any diabetes-like symptoms need immediate professional medical advice for diagnosis and treatment.  It is ultimately diagnosed by testing the amount of glucose (sugar) in your blood after fasting overnight for at least 8 hours.  It is easily determined with a single draw of blood which is analyzed by a [...]

From what I can tell by the repeat sales of our blood glucose testing supplies, people pretty much stick to the same meters and test strips, time after time.  Hey, whatever works, right?  So I won’t bore you with a listing of those, (but you should still check out our low, low prices).   Instead, I’ll turn you [...]

Here are some disturbing statistics published by the American Heart Association.  Much of this is taken from Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics – 2009 Update. Did you know? *  Nearly 2,400 Americans die of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) each day, an average of one death every 37 seconds. *  Preliminary mortality data for 2006 show that [...]

Valentine’s Day and President’s Day aren’t the only holidays we’ll be celebrating this month. February is American Heart Month! Cross my heart. It seems that matters of the heart are quite serious. So serious that every year since 1963, Congress has required the President to proclaim February ‘American Heart Month’.  The American Heart Association helps to draft [...]

For many, this is a financially difficult holiday so I am proposing that we all gift “mindfully”. Pick gifts that your loved ones can really put to use – something that fits their lifestyle, ability, or hobby. When they open it, it will be obvious that you had them in mind when you chose their [...]