User guide

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Carb ratios (meal bolus
information)
Your carb ratios are used to calculate your
meal boluses.
If you count grams: this ratio is the number
of carb grams covered by one (1) unit of
insulin.
If you count exchanges: this ratio is the
number of insulin units you need to cover one
carb exchange.
Pattern A
Basal rate
number
Start time
Basal rate
(units per hour)
#1 midnight
#2
#3
(additional basal rates)
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
Pattern B
Basal rate
number
Start time
Basal rate
(units per hour)
#1 midnight
#2
#3
(additional basal rates)
#4
#5
#6
#7
#8
When Start time
(grams/u or
u/exch)
breakfast
lunch
dinner
snacks