What is Continuous Glucose Monitoring? 

Continuous glucose monitoring systems display real-time glucose readings allowing you to see your current glucose level, glucose graphs, how fast and in what direction your glucose level is heading, allowing early intervention to reduce the frequency and severity of glucose episodes. Depending on the systems used there are a variety of alerts and graphs such as: 

  • Real-time readings displayed every few minutes
  • Alerts providing early warning signals to avoid or minimise oncoming lows and highs
  • Alerts to show when glucose levels are changing
  • Real-time graphs to show previous glucose readings  
  • Real-time trend arrows and alerts to show the direction of your glucose level
  • All can be downloaded to produce additional graphs and data
     

Who Can Benefit from Continuous Glucose Monitoring?

  • Adults and children with Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes
  • People whose glucose level is outside of the normal range, not yet diagnosed with diabetes or other medical conditions
  • People with diabetes who have lost the ability to detect hypoglycaemia during the night or day
  • Pregnant ladies with diabetes, gestational diabetes or trying to conceive
  • People with diabetes wishing to reduce erratic blood glucose fluctuations
  • People with diabetes who are involved in sporting activities
  • People with diabetes whose concentration is affected by changing glucose levels
  • People with diabetes who require additional monitoring whilst driving 
  • People with diabetes who live alone
  • People who are changing diabetes therapy such as starting insulin pump therapy
  • People with diabetes who require observation during hospital admission

Continuous glucose monitoring allows you to discover how day-to-day living - diet, exercise, medication and lifestyle affect your glucose level. You can hire different continuous monitoring systems from London Medical to help you find out any ‘hidden’ problem periods in your 24-hour glucose patterns, or to decide the best system to meet your needs. 

There are a number of CGM systems available at London Medical:

MiniMed Gardian 

See : http://www.minimed.com/products/guardian/

FIRST IN THE UK – LONDON MEDICAL –  5-DAY FREESTYLE NAVIGATOR CONTINUOUS GLUCOSE SENSOR!

Abbott Freestyle Navigator

See: http://www.freestylenavigator.com/ab_nav/

SOON TO COME:

DexCom SEVEN

See: http://www.dexcom.com/

DexCom SEVEN will be available at London Medical later this year pending UK licensing.

 




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