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What would be expected during a daily routine with an insulin pump?
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What would be expected during a daily routine with an insulin pump?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses what the daily routine of looking after an insulin pump looks like and the continual engagement involved.

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What would somebody be expected to do in their daily routine with an insulin pump? The daily routine would be that you'll be able to manage your pump, essentially be able to draw the insulin, load the cartridge, change your candela every third day. Some pumps need your cartridge to be changed. You have to use the insulin bolus calculator, we call it, within the pump, which essentially means that you need to do your own carb counting and then you have to add it to your bonus calculator or you have to use your own CGEM device, collect that information, put it into the pump, figure out how much bonus you need, and be able to bullish yourself. Most of the pumps are designed to give you a basal, which essentially means give you a background insulin, but you have to do your own bonus calculations and also make adjustments to your daily activity. If you're going for exercise, you reduce the basal number 50% to use a temporary basal. If you're going for sports, you have to take off your pump, be mindful of it. Clearly, you'll be mindful of your pump to be in an environment in which your pump's mechanics would be affected, it, but you having a radiation exposure or that kind of stuff or anything that can interfere with your pump functionality, be mindful of that. So it's a lot of complex management that people overall need to do on a day-to-day basis to be able to manage their pump properly.

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