Guest guest Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Hi folks, Merry Christmas to you all. Somdetime ago, there was info posted about the Glucowatch, I thought I had saved it, but I can't find it. I have a friend who keeps having very low sugars during the night, and has passed out a couple of times. If that info could be reposted, or sent to me directly, it would be greatly appreciated! If there are any other alarm systems that will warn you when the sugars are getting low, please let me know. Thank you very much. mail to: .delgobbo@ sympatico.ca Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Hi . Best alarm for your friend is his/her blood meter *smile*. Your friend should ttest before bed, and your friend may want to get up / set an alarm for 3 am to test the sugar to see when it is dropping. I had to do that to adjust my insulin so I would not go low. Sounds like what he/she needs to do more than anything is adjust their insulin... they are taking to much or not eating enough before bed. Bernstein reviewed the glucowatch in his book and found that it is not reliable. It is very sensative to tempature, that is how it tests if you are low, and his patients were waking up all the time by the watch in the middle of the night and losing sleep and they were not even low. I.E if you sweat at night because your furnace is on to high, it would go off etc. Also, on some patients, the watch would cause their skin to break out and become inflamed so they could not use it. I think it was that it has to be stuck on your arm or some sort of solution used that caused the irritation. regards, Glucowatch > Hi folks, > Merry Christmas to you all. > Somdetime ago, there was info posted about the Glucowatch, I thought I had > saved it, but I can't find it. > I have a friend who keeps having very low sugars during the night, and has > passed out a couple of times. > If that info could be reposted, or sent to me directly, it would be greatly > appreciated! If there are any other alarm systems that will warn you when > the sugars are getting low, please let me know. > Thank you very much. > > > mail to: .delgobbo@ > sympatico.ca > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 24, 2003 Report Share Posted December 24, 2003 Hey no problem. there was a unit Bernstein had his eye on that looked promising with a few modifications to it. He reviewed it and explained what modifications would need to be performed on the unit before he would say it was a good unit to alert a person to a low sugar. Over all though, any current device he reviewed in his book he stated they were just not quite reliable yet and were quite expensive for is patients. regards, Glucowatch > > > > > > > Hi folks, > > > Merry Christmas to you all. > > > Somdetime ago, there was info posted about the Glucowatch, I thought I > had > > > saved it, but I can't find it. > > > I have a friend who keeps having very low sugars during the night, and > has > > > passed out a couple of times. > > > If that info could be reposted, or sent to me directly, it would be > > greatly > > > appreciated! If there are any other alarm systems that will warn you > when > > > the sugars are getting low, please let me know. > > > Thank you very much. > > > > > > > > > mail to: .delgobbo@ > > > sympatico.ca > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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