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<blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 2286958" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>Hi @ annaf1001, Does your father have a freestyle Libre sensor? If his control’s not been good and he’s had more than one bad hypo he may be eligible to have one prescribed. It’s made by Abbott and is now provided to a percentage of T1s who meet the criteria.</p><p>If he’s not prescribed one then if finances will stretch to it he may be able to self fund one. </p><p>The Libre monitors interstitial glucose levels every five/fifteen minutes (it’s getting late and my brain’s ready for sleep). It can be read by a Reader that’s also made by Abbott, or sent to a smartphone app. The Reader or the app, LibreView, will show glucose levels as a graph, and will also allow you to set an ideal range of glucose levels that you’d like to stay within. It gives other information as well that would let him know how he’s doing.</p><p>You can also buy a device called a Miaomiao that sits on top of the sensor. This does more than the Reader or LibreView: the miaomiao transmits the reading from the sensor to a number of apps and the apps can give alarms by sound and/or vibrations if your glucose levels go outside the range you set.</p><p>I have a Miaomiao and I bought a watch, a watlaa, that show my glucose readings and will vibrate against my wrist if I go out of range. It means that I don’t have to have my phone with me all the time. The miaomiao will also transmit to a number of other watches, and a few of them, like the watlaa, are standalones that don’t need a phone communicate with to read the signal from the miaomiao. If your father doesn’t have a smartphone then I think one of these would be the best way to get alarms.</p><p>Quite a few of us use the miaomiao to get alarms. I hope that some of them will also come along and give advice; they may explain it all better than I’ve done. I know that [USER=334119]@porl69[/USER] uses one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairygodmother, post: 2286958, member: 68789"] Hi @ annaf1001, Does your father have a freestyle Libre sensor? If his control’s not been good and he’s had more than one bad hypo he may be eligible to have one prescribed. It’s made by Abbott and is now provided to a percentage of T1s who meet the criteria. If he’s not prescribed one then if finances will stretch to it he may be able to self fund one. The Libre monitors interstitial glucose levels every five/fifteen minutes (it’s getting late and my brain’s ready for sleep). It can be read by a Reader that’s also made by Abbott, or sent to a smartphone app. The Reader or the app, LibreView, will show glucose levels as a graph, and will also allow you to set an ideal range of glucose levels that you’d like to stay within. It gives other information as well that would let him know how he’s doing. You can also buy a device called a Miaomiao that sits on top of the sensor. This does more than the Reader or LibreView: the miaomiao transmits the reading from the sensor to a number of apps and the apps can give alarms by sound and/or vibrations if your glucose levels go outside the range you set. I have a Miaomiao and I bought a watch, a watlaa, that show my glucose readings and will vibrate against my wrist if I go out of range. It means that I don’t have to have my phone with me all the time. The miaomiao will also transmit to a number of other watches, and a few of them, like the watlaa, are standalones that don’t need a phone communicate with to read the signal from the miaomiao. If your father doesn’t have a smartphone then I think one of these would be the best way to get alarms. Quite a few of us use the miaomiao to get alarms. I hope that some of them will also come along and give advice; they may explain it all better than I’ve done. I know that [USER=334119]@porl69[/USER] uses one. [/QUOTE]
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