User guide

60 Chapter 5
About active insulin
Active insulin is the bolus insulin that has already been delivered to your body, but has not yet been
used. The Bolus Wizard feature considers your active insulin time setting in determining any active
insulin still in your body from prior boluses. This may help prevent hypoglycemia caused by over
correcting for high blood glucose.
The Bolus Wizard feature automatically tracks active insulin
for you, based on your active insulin time, and subtracts the
appropriate amount when your BG is above target. The details
will appear in the ESTIMATE DETAILS screen during the bolus
programming steps.
Your Paradigm pump is shipped from the factory with an
active insulin time setting of six hours, which most closely
matches the published scientific data. If your healthcare
professional prescribes a different time for you, the active
insulin time setting can be adjusted in one-hour increments
from two to eight hours.
You can always choose to override the suggested Bolus Wizard feature estimate and manually enter
a different amount.
For more details about active insulin, see “Bolus Wizard feature specifications” on page 141.
CAUTION: The Bolus Wizard feature cannot correctly determine the active insulin in your
system after you have taken a manual injection of insulin. The manual
injection will not be recorded by the pump so your active insulin amount will
be read as too little. You must generally wait at least 8 hours after an injection
before relying on your Bolus Wizard feature to calculate your active insulin.
But, the length of time you need to wait depends on your active insulin setting
in the Bolus Wizard feature. See “About active insulin” on page 60 for more
information.
(values shown are
for example only)
If there is no
BG entry,
Active Insulin
displays as
“N/A”
ESTIMATE DETAILS
Est total:
Food intake:
(Meter) BG:
Food:
Correction:
Active Ins:
ACT to proceed, ESC to
back up
4.0U
45gr
160
3.0U
2.0U
1.0U