Hi Karl
Thanks for writing. I will forward your message to Pam. Ed Green wrote to me
off list with some useful info which Pam has responded to below. She won't
mind me sharing this as it provides more information about what she wants than
I frankly understand.
Begin forwarded message:
Hi Edward
Jackie has just forwarded your mail and I would like to say Thank You for
taking the time to reply.
I have been awarded NHS Funding for the Dexcom G5 and will hope to begin a
trial in a few weeks time. I am impatient though and thought I would try the
Abbott Freestyle Lebra while I am waiting. I have a little sight but use
VoiceOver on my Mac/iPad/iPhone at all times and had done a little research
which led me to believe that I may be able to read the Lebra Scanner. I was
aware that the Lebra App is presently available for Android and had heard of a
Screenreader App which works on Jailbroken Android Handsets which would read
the Lebra App aloud. The Lebra System consists of a small Sensor which I am
told is worn for 14 days which is swiped by the Lebra Scanner or Android
Handset which must be equipped with Near Field Communication. Do you know of an
App which will read NFC Readings aloud??? I have searched the net without
success and have been unable to contact the Person who mentioned the App. It
may have been called something like Blip but I am unsure.
I would be extremely grateful for your help and advice and would be interested
in hearing from others who are using the Abbott Freestyle Lebra, Dexcom G5 or
any other Technology being used to manage Diabetes by the Blind and Visually
Challenged.
Best wishes
Kind Regards,
Jackie Brown
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-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of ;
Karl Proud
Sent: 31 August 2016 04:39
To: access-uk@freelists. org <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Smart device usage with type one diabetes
Jackie,
What you are talking about is CGM or Continuous Glucose Monitoring. A patch is
applied to the skin which sends regular measurements to a smart device. There
are two sorts of devices, one that allows measurements to be taken when the
diabetic wants to measure which really is supposed to move away from the
regular finger pricking tests in common use, so is not what your friend is
looking for. The other automatically checks the glucose levels every few
minutes and sends the results to the smart device. Thresholds can be set for
alarms if the levels rise or drop below a certain point, like 4/0 mol/l. These
devices are currently not available on the NHS and the pads that have to be
replaced regularly are expensive. There is a movement to get the devices
available as they should offer better management of diabetes and therefore save
money in the longer term, just like insulin pumps are now available. I am
currently in touch with a producer of insulin pumps to see if the smart device
which currently comes with the pump and is inaccessible could be replaced by a
software app on a smart phone. The smart device connects to a pump with
bluetooth. The idea would be that the pump could be controlled and information
read from the phone. This would be also the next step for the CGM detailed
above. I’m afraid that nothing is going to happen soon though but that is the
way of these things.
I don’t want to sound patronising, but I would be concerned if your friend was
having regular Hypos and they are in any way debilitating, some changes should
be made by her to tie down why and when they are happening, but I’ll stop there
as this starts to sound like a lecture from the nurse and after 35 years of
being a type 1 I’ll go to hell for talking like that.
Regards,
Karl
On 30 Aug 2016, at 8:43 am, Jackie Brown <jackieannbrown62@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a friend who needs to inject Insulin because she has type one
diabetes. She uses an iPhone, but would be willing to also use
Android if she can find what she hopes exists to determine when her
blood sugars are decreasing. She currently has no warning of when
this is likely to happen, and wonders if:
1. There are any accessible pieces of kit on the market that work
with an iOS or Android app that would help with this, and
2. How accessible any app might be, and whether anyone is using
something they could recommend?
Please feel free to drop me a line off list that I can forward to her
if you have any suggestions or experience with such equipment and
apps. I think Pam's difficulty is that while she can test her blood
sugars, she has no way of knowing when they are dropping until it becomes
quite serious for her.
Many thanks.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Brown
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