The Apple Watch is a very complete health device and allows you to monitor diabetes, while waiting for more promising functions
He Apple Watch is a powerful health tool which has evolved over the years and improved its sensors. And it can also be an important tool for all users diagnosed with diabetes. This blood sugar condition can cause many problems and Apple Watch can help with everything he can do now and what he could do in the future.
How to control diabetes with Apple Watch now
To monitor diabetes from the Apple Watch we currently have two options. On the one hand, use some of the best apps to control glucose level available to us and enter the data manually and, on the other hand, use applications that connect to sensors of glucose that can be transported in the body, this second option being one of the most interesting.
Applications to control glucose level from Apple Watch
Currently we have many applications that allow us to control the glucose level from the Apple Watch. Here are the most notable options:
Glucomate: diabetes monitor
Glucomate is a very well designed application that displays data clearly and accuratelywith easy-to-understand summaries and more detailed graphs and data lists. It can be used to record your blood sugar if you check it manually, like a log, or it can read your blood sugar readings from HealthKit, so it can take data from sensors that record the readings in the Apple Health app.
SocialDiabetes
Social diabetes is a software designed for self-management of type 1 and 2 diabeteswhich allows you to record key data such as blood sugar, insulin, carbohydrates, medications and physical activity. It makes it easy to calculate bolus insulin dose by taking into account factors such as insulin sensitivity, insulin-to-carbohydrate ratios and target blood sugar range, improving blood sugar control directly from the smartphone.
Dexcom G7
It is one of the Best Ways to Manage Diabetes If You Own an Apple Watch. The Dexcom G7 sensor has its own app for the Apple Watch from which you can monitor your blood glucose levels at any time. Additionally, it has notifications that you will receive on your wrist up to 20 minutes before blood sugar drops.
The Dexcom G7 sensor features Direct to Watch mode and connects directly to an Apple Watch, giving you the ability to have real-time blood glucose readings on your wrist without having to carry your cell phone.
One of the best known and most used glucose sensors, FreeStyle Libreis one of the most used options, but it does not have an application adapted for the Apple Watch, only for the iPhone.
The future of the Apple Watch lies in a blood glucose sensor
Apple has been studying the possibility of including a non-invasive glucose sensor in the Apple Watch for many years that could revolutionize the lives of thousands of people diagnosed with diabetes. But for now failed to make it reliable enough enough to include it in your watch.
Although this is Apple's long-term goal, we do not know when a sensor capable of performing these types of measurements may be released, because the information obtained must be extremely precise. Light-powered glucose sensors exist, but they are currently too large to include in an Apple Watch.
In the short term, we know Apple is working on improving the Health app to prevent diabetes, which could be helped by the Apple Watch's current sensors. Even if this is only one of the company's research areas. We may see further developments in this regard in future software updates.
Other Apple Watch health features that may be useful
He Apple Watch is full of health sensors and is able to offer many parameters that can help us in multiple ways to better manage diabetes and have a healthier lifestyle. With the Apple Watch we can:
- Measure heart rate: Apple Watch's sensors provide precise measurement of our pulse, providing alerts if it increases or decreases unusually.
- Perform an electrocardiogram: a fairly precise test that can help us identify heart problems not yet identified.
- Measuring blood oxygen level: another test that the Apple Watch is capable of performing and which can offer us interesting data, especially if we suffer from diabetes or another disease.
- Sleep Control: Sleeping well is essential for health, especially if you are suffering from any type of illness.
- Detect sleep apnea: one of the latest functions that allows us to detect this difficult sleep disorder.
The Apple Watch is a device capable of measure many parameters of our health and we hope that in the future it can also measure blood sugar. This would be great news for thousands of users around the world.
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