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'Carbs & Cals' and x effect on blood glucose

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Paul Goldie said:
So I have been thinking about this and I think I have worked out the logic. They are using the 5g carb as a generic ICR and therefore if the food is listed as 35g Carb and they put 7 blood drops up then this means you will need 7 units of insulin for that particular part of your meal. So you would go through the whole meal you are about to eat and add up all the blood drops and that would be how much insulin you need to cover that meal.
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I have been Googling this question from @Jon-Manchester and came across this thread, and I find Paul's answer interesting/concerning....depending on how you read this, but I have been using these 'drops' as an indicator for my extended bolus cals. Do I'm using an OmniPod Dash system, and I have always used these blood indicators in the same way that @EmmaL76 had mentioned, so the higher the blood drop count, the more bolus I deliver immediately, against how much I leave extended and for how long.

It's been working for me, but that might just be a happy accident.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Those are sugar cubes aren’t they?

So a rough ‘equivalent to x cubes of sugar’ as a visual reference? Which would explain why it’s divided into 5g increments guess?
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They’re blood drops with sugar cubes inside them I think.
And are sugar cubes all 5g? That’s a strange measurement for the developers to use IMO, but you might be right, and I’m the worst diabetic alive so shouldn’t really have an opinion. ‍♂️
 
benreeve said:
They’re blood drops with sugar cubes inside them I think.
And are sugar cubes all 5g? That’s a strange measurement for the developers to use IMO, but you might be right, and I’m the worst diabetic alive so shouldn’t really have an opinion. ‍♂️
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I find that I need to calculate legumes at 1.8 times the listed carb value - so do some others, yet some eat them freely as a low carb food - so it is always wise to check and be somewhat sceptical about figures in a book or app.
 
benreeve said:
They’re blood drops with sugar cubes inside them I think.
And are sugar cubes all 5g? That’s a strange measurement for the developers to use IMO, but you might be right, and I’m the worst diabetic alive so shouldn’t really have an opinion. ‍♂️
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Yes I agree. But it’s not the first time I’ve seen cubes used as a sort of visual metaphor.

A sugar cube is supposed to be one teaspoon’s worth, which ought to be approx 5g I think.
 
The app gives you an idea on what is going to spike your glucose the most with blood droplet score also good news barcode scanning is coming to the app.
 
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