Dexcom G6 - When to Use Your Meter

Dexcom G6
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System User Guide
175Chapter 11: Treatment Decisions
• How can you use G6 for treatment decisions, including:
• Setting your alerts
• Acting on alarm/alerts
• Acting on trend arrows
• Looking at your home screen for your most G6 recent readings
• Using G6 readings
• Looking at the last 24 hours:
• What decisions worked?
• How can you improve?
11.4 When to Use Your Meter
There are times when you need to rely on your meter instead of your G6.
When in Doubt, Get Your Meter Out
Anytime you look at your home screen and think, “Oh! That isn't the number I thought
I would see,”use your meter to determine your BG value before making treatment
decisions.
Sometimes your symptoms don’t match your G6 readings or they aren’t what you
expect them to be. For example:
• You don’t feel your lows or highs
• You’re a caregiver and your 2-year-old is behaving differently from what you’d
expect from their sensor number
• You’re new to diabetes and aren’t sure what your body’s telling you