WHAT IS CONSIDERED AS ACTIVE INSULIN?

[mum2westiesGill]

According to the updated MySugr bolus advisor

- correction insulin is considered as active insulin

and

- food insulin is not considered as active insulin because it's used to cover the carbs you have eaten and doesn't have the potential to further lower your blood sugar

 

[pm133]

Presumably they take "active insulin" to mean the insulin which is available to correct a high reading. The other food insulin is all accounted for because it's left you high.

Are you getting confused by the terminology in the handbook?

 

[Sally71]

According to the updated MySugr bolus advisor

- correction insulin is considered as active insulin

and

- food insulin is not considered as active insulin because it's used to cover the carbs you have eaten and doesn't have the potential to further lower your blood sugar

Yes that’s how Roche work things out, I haven’t a clue how my daughter’s new pump does it other than it is different!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Yes, this has always been Roche’s approach. They discount any insulin that is intended to balance carbs you have eaten, and only track the insulin which is supposed to be correcting your above-range BG.

This does mean you have to bear in mind that ‘active insulin’ may not represent all of the insulin that is currently working, especially if you only guessed the carbs in the meal!

Medtronic and Tandem show you the meal boluses too, but Tandem confuses me a little because it reduces active insulin where basal has been suspended.