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MySugr App and calculator - advising to eat?

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Just tested BG late morning and it was 9.0 with post meal rise. (43u Novorapid and 30 Lantus at brekkie)
I wouldn't normally do a correction as my BG will fall anyway (in fact , right now almost every lunchtime it drops rapidly at about 12 ish to near hypo levels, but that's another story) but just for "shizz and gigz" I pressed the Calc icon expecting it to suggest 2-3 u, but it said "13g" in the carbs section.

Is that advising me to eat 13g to avoid a drop to low levels? Can it even do that?
I've not seen anything in the manual about that
 
Yes it advises you to eat additional carbs if it sees you have too much active insulin on board, and it will tell you how many needed, based on the ratios you have programmed in. If you were eating 13g carbs anyway and asked it for bolus advice it would have taken the carbs off that and advised no insulin.
 
Wow, I never knew that. Smarter than the AccuCheck Aviva expert I had.
 
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