Re: [IPk] FW: Pumping at last!

[Pat Reynolds <email @ redacted>]

On 28/05/2010 16:58, david hales wrote:
> It's just if I take ONE time - say that one which
 > includes breakfast. The ratio depends on what breakfast is - toast, cereals
or
> whatever - and even different cereals need a different ratio.

That's like me with dinner ... I guess 8 is too few if you need very 
many breakfasts (the Cozmo has 10, but one might well need more than 20, 
I think, if there are a significant number of variables.

With the cozmo, one can label them, so you could have
Weetabix
Porridge
BaconNeggs
Toms_on_Toast
and so on, but if you need to differntiate (for example) a rice-based, 
high-carb meal at lunch time from the same thing at dinner, and from a 
rice-based mid-carb meal, etc. etc, it might become difficult to come up 
with the names.

I expect the next generation of pump may well be better at this: it 
knows the time, it knows what you eat (because you tell it rice, 35g 
CHO, 400cal) and thus it knows (because you've told it - maybe even 
because it _learns_ that you always go high after such a meal, but low 
if you have the same meal but only 250cal) how much bolus to suggest.

Cheers,

Pat
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