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Using the Bolus Wizard feature 55
Chapter 5
Using the Bolus Wizard feature
What is it?
A feature that calculates an estimated bolus:
Information you need
Food entry
You need to know how many exchanges or grams of carbohydrates you are going to eat. (You need
to know what foods contain carbohydrate and understand carbohydrate counting.)
Your blood glucose reading
You need to know your blood glucose, BG, reading.
When using the Bolus Wizard feature, the pump can
work with a linked meter that may have been included
with your pump to automatically receive your BG
reading. The section “Meter option” in this chapter has
more information. If you are not using this meter, you
will manually enter your BG.
Your personal Bolus Wizard feature
settings
In addition to your BG reading and/or your food entry, the Bolus Wizard feature uses personal
settings that you program into the pump. (For instructions see “How to program the Bolus Wizard
feature.”)
➠ To support your food intake
AND/OR
➠ To correct high blood glucose
➠ Carb units (grams or exchanges)
➠ Carb (food) ratios(in carbohydrate
grams/unit of insulin or insulin units/carb
exchanges)
➠ BG units (mg/dL or mmol/L)
➠ Insulin sensitivity
➠ Target blood glucose range
➠ Active insulin time (hours)
Linked
Meter
BG
Readings
Pump