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Developing diabetes app

Mantas

Mantas

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi,

For some time I been developing diabetes app.

I was tired of guessing every time how much insulin to take. Also I didn't wanted to constantly analyze my data, to determine how my I:C ratios are changing.

After several months of work I made a prototype. This app automatically analyzes data and suggests bolus dose. Part I like the most is that it on it's own monitors how my I:C ratios are changing and corrects them. All I need to do now is just enter glucose and carbohydrates.

I would like to know what do you think about it?




Some screenshots:

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This is the main window. It shows most important information. Also here I enter glucose and carbohydrates and calculate what bolus dose to take.


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Currently I rarely look at this window. Here I can see what were my insulin to carbohydrates ratios.

You can find it at: http://insulino.com
 
Hi Mantas, it looks like you have a lot of potential in your app. However, in its current format it would not be of much use to myself and a lot of others who follow a low carbohydrate diet. I work out my insulin requirements based on protein which also has an effect on blood sugars. Would it be possible to add a function for protein intake?
 
Can you tell more how do you calculate your insulin dose? Or maybe there is an article that I can read?
 
When following a low carbohydrate diet, the body gets its glucose from protein. It can convert a portion of the protein consumed into glucose through a process called gluconeogenesis. It's a slower process, meaning your insulin injections can be more effective at keeping blood sugars stable. The amount converted varies from person to person, but a lot of people start by assuming that 50% of the protein consumed will be converted. Therefore, I treat 20 grams of protein like I would 10 grams of carbohydrate. I used to inject 1 unit of Lispro for every 10g of carbs (which I still do, I tend to have around 10-12g of carbs in a meal), and I inject 1 unit of lispro for every 20g of protein.
 
how does the app calculate the amount of carbs required before physical activity.........?

what about the insulin/carb ratios.............? what does it actually work out?

does it look at the pre meal blood sugar readings and then suggest a change to the previous meals ratio?

the normal way I would change ratios is to focus on one time of day for 3 days, then adjust accordingly......

apart from the ratios element, there are a lot of blood meters that do most of this already.....

the I:C ratios element does sound interesting though....
 
novorapidboi26 said:
how does the app calculate the amount of carbs required before physical activity.........?

what about the insulin/carb ratios.............? what does it actually work out?

does it look at the pre meal blood sugar readings and then suggest a change to the previous meals ratio?

the normal way I would change ratios is to focus on one time of day for 3 days, then adjust accordingly......

apart from the ratios element, there are a lot of blood meters that do most of this already.....

the I:C ratios element does sound interesting though....
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1) how does the app calculate the amount of carbs required before physical activity.........?

Diabetes isn't very stable. What I mean is, that if you do several days in a row the same thing, your glucose and insulin doses will be a bit different.
So to reduce this error I used exercises that burn a lot of calories (about 2000 calories in 4 hours). In that way I was able to calculate how much additional carbohydrates is needed.

2) about I:C ratios (insulin to carbohydrates ratios)

Hardest thing when trying to determine I:C ratios is when pre-meal and after meal glucose is different. Than you can't be sure what was the ratio (because glucose changed).

But there are ways to calculate I:C ratios when glucose changed. Program uses one of the methods, this way it can calculate ratios every time when you take bolus (insulin).

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Basically it is diabetes logbook that can analyze data and calculate doses :)
 
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