Just had an email from Libre Freestyle team. You can check your child's bg or the person you care for with link to your smartphone while they are at school. I did Scar-Fell this year with a Libre with perfect bg ( checking every few mins in the rain) Very good 😎
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I was looking at the android thing today, you can use instead of a reader. I have a windows bloody phone so can't do any of this.
Its in the right direction is it not 🙂
I know my mam & dad would have been a lot reassured if they had in the 60s 😱 (we take tech as normal now)😎
Sally71
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I'm not sure how useful I'd find this to be honest, it relies on the child scanning the sensor and when you've got one like mine who normally only scans a couple of times during the school day then it wouldn't give me a lot of info. Also, i don't know if I'd want to know if she was having a hypo when I'm not with her, I'd immediately be panicking about whether anyone was doing anything about it; whereas if I don't know anything I've got no reason to worry. And what am I supposed to do with the information anyway, keep phoning the school every time something is going wrong and then interrupt the person who is trying to help her?! That would make me look like a very neurotic mum who doesn't trust the school staff to look after her child, and anyway my child is now 10 and needs to learn how to manage things for herself without me wading in to save the day all the time.
As it is I go through the memories of her meters at the end of every day to see what her blood sugars have been like, and from that I can work out whether any pump adjustments are necessary. Being fed the information during the day wouldn't make it any easier at all, and I don't think I'd want it interrupting me when I'm at work. I'm sure some people will be very excited by this development, sorry but I'm not one of them and won't be rushing out to get it
Love the Libre itself though!
As it is I go through the memories of her meters at the end of every day to see what her blood sugars have been like, and from that I can work out whether any pump adjustments are necessary. Being fed the information during the day wouldn't make it any easier at all, and I don't think I'd want it interrupting me when I'm at work. I'm sure some people will be very excited by this development, sorry but I'm not one of them and won't be rushing out to get it
Love the Libre itself though!
Have a Libre on at the moment & they suit me fine. Anyone can buy them T1 or T2. The Knowledge you get from one is well worth it. Matt on the cycling tread shows well how it allows him to do cycling etc. I climbed the highest Mountain in the poring rain with one on, could not have down with finger pricking in the 12hrs it took to climb up 😎
Sally71
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Knowledge is king only if you are able to use it. I'm sure Librelink would put your mind at rest if your child had perfect numbers all the time. But what would you do if it said they were 18 and rising, or 2.5 and had been that way for the last 20 minutes? If your child is miles away being looked after by someone else then you can't do anything about it and it just makes you worry. Either that or you keep phoning whoever is in charge, which probably isn't very helpful!
I'm not disputing the usefulness of the Libre itself, my daughter wears one all the time and we find it a fabulous tool in so many ways, couldn't go back to just finger pricking! I just don't see the point in having the data sent to my phone when my daughter isn't with me and I can't do anything with the information. And when she is with me I can just look at the reader. Each to his own, I'm sure there are plenty of people who will find a use for it and that's great for them 🙂
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Not if you can't afford to buy them .
There are lots & lots of posts on here about parents who are worried about there kids. Do you not think when little tommy wants to go to school camp etc. You might have your opinion but this really might help someone in a situation. Teenagers going out etc ! 🙂 £130 inc two sensor's for starter kit 😉 Kids cost a lot to have
Sally71
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Like I said Hobie, I'm sure many people will find Librelink useful, I just don't think I'm one of them, I don't see how it puts my mind at rest to know that my daughter's blood sugars are going haywire when I'm in no position to help her sort them out! Yes she'll want to go on camps, but if she's there and I'm here how can it be useful to know what her blood sugars are doing, if it's good numbers that's great but if not I think I'd rather not know because I'll only worry about it! If I don't know what's going on I tend to assume she's OK and whoever is in charge will ring me if there's a problem.
Anyway there's no point going over the same arguments, you're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine 🙂
Oh and you and I are lucky, but there are many people for whom £130 is just an impossible amount, after they have paid their rent, bills and food they don't have that much left to do anything else with
Anyway there's no point going over the same arguments, you're entitled to your opinion and I'm entitled to mine 🙂
Oh and you and I are lucky, but there are many people for whom £130 is just an impossible amount, after they have paid their rent, bills and food they don't have that much left to do anything else with
Another bump for this. If you are going on holiday or doing something different it puts parents minds at rest a little. KIDS
I could not think of a better gadget for kids etc 🙂
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I think the Libre itself is fantastic but as far as the link is concerned I think it is just a waste of time as it stands. Firstly you are relying on the person the other end to scan (whether it be teenager, child's carer, whoever). If they do not scan you do not know so not really useful. So they scan and see they are going low rapidly - exactly the same time as you see it, provided you have had your nose to your phone constantly every second. However even if you see it the same time as they do, hopefully by the time you get to contact them about it they would have done something about it. Can you see - teenage daughter at dance several miles away. She scans and sees she is going very low. You see it so phone her immediately to tell her. She replies "For goodness sake Mum I know, I have just scanned and have seen and am already drinking a glass of orange juice and munching into a packet of crisps". What if you had nodded off and saw it half an hour later. Your panic and stress would go right up, and not do you any good. What do you do?. Phone and ask if she is OK and all you will know is that she is OK. How does it make life better for knowing at that moment she had a hypo but was now OK any more than knowing later when she got home that she had a hypo but was now OK. Same with a younger child. If they were not capable of sorting themselves out then they would be with a responsible adult. The adult would scan and also deal with any lows or highs there and then, hopefully not waiting on the parent to contact them to tell them to. What if it goes wrong, what if you have taken your eyes off your phone for five minutes at the wrong time, what if you lose a signal. Hopefully your child will not be relying on you to tell them that their blood glucose is going low or high before they do something about it, as you would not know any quicker than they do. You cannot be watching your smartphone every second of every day and night, especially if you have to work. So I agree with Sally, as it stands I do not think the smartphone link is that useful. I am talking about the link here not the Libre itself.
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