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Glucose-Charter™ is a blood glucose recording tool installed on your iPhone. But more than that, with its unique food database it will assist you to make informed dietary choices.
Approximately 17 million people in the United States, or 6.2 percent of the population, have diabetes. While an estimated 11. 1 million have been diagnosed, unfortunately, 5.9 million are unaware that they have the disease.
For the person with diabetes there may be future treatments that will reduce the impact of the disease and possibly even prevent its onset. For right now, however, treatment with the goal of reducing diabetes related organ damage, is the best and only avenue.
For those with Diabetes, treatment will largely be dictated by the whether it is Type I or Type 2, your level of existing insulin production, if any, and of course the treatment modality that is indicated and elected by you and your doctor. While it is imperative for you to follow whatever treatment program that is prescribed, the best results will also come to those who are active participants in their own care.
Glucose-Charter™ was developed to provide you with self-monitoring & logging your blood glucose, food guidance and to reinforce the positive benefits of frequent exercise. In using the Glucose-Charter™ program you will find an extensive food database that presents several different means for evaluating the foods you choose to eat. The program will log all these foods and is designed to remember your "favorite foods". The unique Glucose-Charter™ food information display will make eating decisions much easier and provide you and your doctor with the needed record keeping to maximize the benefits of your ongoing treatment.
New features in version 3
include the setup and recording of Insulin and other medications. These
are summarised in an output table and are now included with the blood
glucose and BMI report to doctor introduced in version 2. This diary
feature better serves those Type 1 diabetics and those who are on a mixed
treatment plan, eg oral and injected.
Password Security Feature.
Our Various "Charter" applications such as BP-Charter now have a privacy password feature built into the code. This feature is available in all our version 4.0 and above applications.
Here is an outline of how this feature works.
Upon initial load of the new version you will be asked to set a password.
If you do not want to set a password simply press "Done".
Doing so will enable you to access the application without a password
challenge.
If you require a password to secure your application
please enter one as below.
You must match the passwords in both boxes. Once you have done so your
password will be set. Please remember it for future access.
IF you forget this you must contact us provide the application name and
version number.
On subsequent openings of the application you will be challenged to provide
the password.
Failure to enter the correct password will simply return the following
message screen.
We hope this feature will be of benefit to users who require it.
Please contact us if you have any difficulty with this feature.
Initial Settings:
When you first start the Glucose-Charter™ program your iPhone or iPod Touch will
first provide a
Welcome Screen:
After a few seconds to allow time to load the database, you
will be presented with the Initial Settings screen:
If at any time you require getting back to this settings screen, simply
touch the "Initial
Settings" navigation button, below the primary screen.
The settings screen requests several inputs from you:
Your Date of Birth: Simply touch the Date of Birth screen location.
You will be taken to
a three part wheel input screen. Select your Day, Month & Year and then
touch the "Save" button at the upper left screen corner.
Your Gender: Slide the indicator to "Female" or leave it where it
is to indicate "Male"
Height: Before inputting your actual height, move the measurement
indictor (only if you
wish to use Centimetres instead of feet & inches) to Centimetres, if
that is the scale with which you are most familiar.
Having completed that, touch the word "Height" to go to the input screen
where you will be presented a numerical keypad to enter your height and a "Save" button on the upper left screen corner to record your entry. Note:
If you are using feet and inches you may enter inches including .5 for those
half way between a full inch measure (6.5 inches is a valid entry). This may
prove important for the Glucose-Charter™
in computing an accurate BMI (Body Mass Index).
Weight: Here again you may elect to use either kilograms or pounds
& ounces by
moving the indicator and then touch the word "Weight" to be taken to that
input screen,
where you will enter your weight and "Save" the value.
Glc Unit:
This is the unit setting for how your blood glucose is measured.
Milligrams
per Deci-Litre mg/dL
Or Millimoles per Litre mmol/L
Please chose the unit system which corresponds to your measuring device.
Diabetes Type:
Type 1. Our program will assist you to record your blood
glucose, Insulin and other medication levels. Your diabetes
requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you
to consult a qualified physician.
Type 2. Dietary Control:
This program was designed to assist this type of person with diabeties. However
we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician, before using this
program.
Type 2. Oral Medication:
This program was designed to assist this type of person with diabeties. However
we strongly advise you to consult a qualified physician, before using this
program. Continue to take any medication prescribed by your medical adviser. Use
the new recording feature to note your use of these medicines.
Type 2. (Insulin) Pump
Our program will assist you to record your blood glucose, Insulin and
other medication levels. Your diabetes treatment regime
requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you
to consult a qualified physician.
Type 2. (Insulin) Injected
Our program will assist you to record your blood glucose, Insulin and
other medication levels. Your diabetes treatment regime
requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you
to consult a qualified physician.
Type 2. (Insulin) Mixed, Oral and Injected
Our program will assist you to record your blood glucose, Insulin and
other medication levels. Your diabetes treatment regime
requires professional medical advice and monitoring, we strongly advise you
to consult a qualified physician.
Select your Type of Diabetes and the method used to control it.
Insulin.
Here you may select your type(s) of Insulin (brand name) if your type is
not in the list you may add it.
from v4.5 multiple insulin types are recordable
To add an unlisted type click Edit
Add New Insulin
You may of course edit any of the existing entries
as well.
Medication.
Here you may add any medication you may be taking, specific doses and
we make provision for you to add a comment (we suggest some sort of
indication as to when the med should be taken)
Add Medication as needed.
Will result in Aspirin but as yet no dosage or
comments are entered.
Select + to add Dosages
Enter Dosage and any comment
(we suggest using this to indicate when to take the medication)
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Input Section
By touching the Input button on the bottom menu you will be taken to the
input section: Here you may enter daily measurements for weight, blood
glucose, carbohydrate foods eaten, Insulin and other Medication taken.
Your Weight today.
An effective means of monitoring your diabetes is to watch your weight.
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is widely used to indicate healthy ranges for people
of various body shapes. If you fall into the "Obese" BMI category we strongly
advise you to seek medical help in reducing your body-weight so that you fall
within the Overweight category at least and Normal category if possible.
Please record your weight on a daily basis, or whenever possible.
To do so touch the Your Weight Today Item on the menu.
Enter your measured weight in the units of your choice, press Save
If you do not want to enter anything at this time you may press Cancel.
Your Glucose Now.
From the Input section menu you may press the Your Glucose Now item this
will bring up the Glucose entry screen.
Please note we also place a Reminder message on this screen. This is not
an indication to take medication at this time, merely a prompt if you have
neglected to take any prescribed medications before or around this time.
Once you have entered your glucose measurement you may press Save
If you do not want to enter anything at this time you may press Cancel.
Carbohydrates.
By controlling your consumption of carbohydrates you may alleviate some
of the extreme symptoms usually seen when excessive amounts of dietary sugars.
We provide an extensive list of Carbohydrate foods (Note: this is not the
complete list of all food types seen in Weight-Charter™, just those containing
known amounts of Carbohydrate, with the corresponding Glycemic Index and the
Glycemic Load, you will not find meats, cheeses and so forth in this database.)
Note: We do intend to add a User Food entry section in a future release.
Choose Food Database:
Because of its size its best to search for the food click the Q icon:
Select the item from the list:
To Delete a food - First select it and press Delete:
Then press Delete again: (this is to prevent accidental deletions)
Important Note: Carbs is an indicator of the relative amount of carbohydrate in a typical serving.
We have not indicated the serving size but as a general rule any more than 15 grams (approx half an ounce) of carbohydrate
in a serving is undesirable.
Our indicators show green <=15g (half oz) orange <=30g
(1oz) red >30g (1oz)
Initially the Pre-existing Foods list will be empty. To add a food (again
only foods with known carbohydrate GI and GL are included in the list) click
Food Database Button, this will open a long list of all the foods in the database.
We do not expect you to scroll through to find the food you wish to enter,
adjacent to the help button is a search icon Q clicking on that will bring
up the keyboard and allow you to enter the food name eg Jam This will display
a shorter list of foods containing "jam"
You will notice under the food description 3 important indicators of the
foods diabetic compatibility. The green color indicates acceptable, orange
indicates tolerable in reasonable amounts and red indicates undesirable but
permissible in small amounts.
Any food which has more than one Red or orange indicator is best avoided,
if there is another choice available with better indicators please select
that.
You may return to the Input section menu by pressing Cancel or Input in
the Bottom menu items.
Insulin.
Here you may indicate when you took an Insulin dose and the amount in
units taken. You may indicate the
time it was taken by selecting Time and adjusting the wheel accordingly.
NOTE: you cannot change the date taken in this version.
(We plan to
add this function to a future release)
You may indicate the amount by selecting Insulin and adjusting the
wheel accordingly.
Note: We pre-set the wheel at your previous amount.
Medication.
Here you may indicate that you took a medication. Do this by checking
the item. Touching it again will uncheck it.
Output Section.
By pressing the Output button on the Bottom Menu you are presented with
the Output section. This lists Charts and Tables which may be displayed by
clicking on them.
BMI.
This chart indicates your calculated body-mass index. This international
scale is used to determine whether an adult person of average fitness is underweight
below 18.5, normal 18.5 to 25, overweight 25 to 30, or Obese above 30. Note:
highly muscular athletes show as being overweight when clearly the majority
of their body mass is muscle.
The desired range for most people is Normal however Overweight is acceptable
as well, it will require more discipline when selecting foods and foods with
high glycemic loads and diets with high calorie intakes should be avoided.
Underweight is also concerning and may indicate other medical problems,
we strongly advise consulting professional medical advice if you fall into
this category.
Recorded Glucose.
This chart shows your daily glucose record.
We now chart High, Average and Low values for the day.
Summary Table.
Choosing Summary table from the Output section displays your current BMI,
The average daily GI of foods you’ve eaten. Your Glucose stats High, Low and
Average for Today and an Average Glucose level over all records.
Glucose History.
Displays BMI and Average GI of food eaten on that date. And the Glucose
Stats High, Low and Average also for that date.
Food History.
Is not a complete record of all the food you ate on a particular day, just
those selected from our known Carbohydrate, GI and GL database.
Insulin History.
Displays a summary of your daily Insulin taken, by time.
Medication History.
Displays a summary of daily meds taken (as checked)
Maintenance.
Here you may reset Glucose-Charter Settings and/or Data.
We also moved the Report to Doctor and PIN number to this section.
RESET
Data
Reset all data except the initial settings (Height, Weight, gender, the various
measurement units, your type of diabetes)
OK shows this screen
Glucose-Charter will reset everything including those initial
settings above.
OK will show this screen
Report to Doctor:
By setting this function to ON you are asked to provide an email address,
of your doctor (or yourself)
Every 30 days the application will send a brief anonymous report to
the address you provide.
If this is your Doctors email please advise them of your PIN number
in whatever manner you feel most comfortable.
enter email address and press Save.
What information does the report contain?
From: report@glucose-charter.com
to: Youremail@address.example.com
subject: Glucose Report: P83FHQI
Initial Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 Weight:
78.50 kg BMI: 24.78
Current Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 Weight:
88.00 kg BMI: 27.77
Glucose Report From Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008
Glucose Level (mg/dL) Lowest: 99.00 Highest: 145.00 Average:
124.00
Gi Average: 34.00
Insulin
Medication Taken
Privacy:
It is critical to understand, that there is no record of your PIN other than on
the device. The PIN serves as a private identifier between you and your
health professional.
We do not know your identity and you will see that this program never asks
you to identify yourself - we consider your privacy to be a basic right.
About Us will display the "splash" page this indicates what version
of the program you are running and our copyright notice and trademarks.
