User's Manual

Achieve Healthy, Safe Pumping

Handling Special Situations

Prepare for emergencies

Prepare and keep an emergency kit with you at all times to

quickly respond to any diabetes emergency. The kit should

include:

• Blood glucose meter and strips

• Lancet device and lancets

• Ketone strips

• Glucose tablets or another fast-acting source of carbohydrate

• Alcohol prep swabs

• A vial of rapid-acting U-100 insulin

• Syringes for injecting insulin

• Instructions from your healthcare provider about appropriate

injection doses if insulin delivery is interrupted

• Several iXL Pumps with their syringes and filling needles

• Extra remote batteries (at least two AAA alkaline)

• Extra blood glucose meter batteries

• A copy of the letter from your healthcare provider for airline

security

• Contact information for reaching your healthcare provider

and/or doctor in case of an emergency

• Glucagon kit and written instructions for giving an injection if

you are unconscious (see ”Avoid Adverse Reactions” earlier

in this chapter).

Ask your healthcare provider to help you develop plans

for handling emergency situations, including what to do

if you cannot reach your healthcare provider.

Sick days

Any physical stress can cause your blood glucose to rise, and

illness is a physical stress. Your healthcare provider can help

you make a specific plan for sick days. The following are only

general guidelines.

When you are ill, check your blood glucose more often (at least

once every 2 hours) to avoid DKA. The symptoms of DKA are

much like those of the flu. Before assuming you have the flu,

check your blood glucose to rule out DKA (see ”Avoid Adverse

Reactions” earlier in this chapter).

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