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<blockquote data-quote="Shiba Park" data-source="post: 2139630" data-attributes="member: 329563"><p>What I meant was that the granularity of pens doesn't allow the calculated dose to be administered. For example, 20g carbs:</p><p>ICR of 1unit:10g gives 2 units of insulin</p><p>ICR of 1 unit:30g gives 0.66 units of insulin.</p><p>There's a +50% to -25% error immediately because a pen can't do less than 0.5 units...</p><p></p><p>I think most people can guess carbs more accurately than than, let alone count them!</p><p></p><p>OTOH, a pump will dose in increments of about 0.05 units, so practically no error introduced [emoji4].</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps,</p><p></p><p>Shiba.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiba Park, post: 2139630, member: 329563"] What I meant was that the granularity of pens doesn't allow the calculated dose to be administered. For example, 20g carbs: ICR of 1unit:10g gives 2 units of insulin ICR of 1 unit:30g gives 0.66 units of insulin. There's a +50% to -25% error immediately because a pen can't do less than 0.5 units... I think most people can guess carbs more accurately than than, let alone count them! OTOH, a pump will dose in increments of about 0.05 units, so practically no error introduced [emoji4]. Hope that helps, Shiba. [/QUOTE]
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