User's Manual

Dexcom G5x System User Guide
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3.2 Benefits
Daily habits impact your BG levels. With the G5x, you can track how your
exercise, carbs, stress levels, medication, or illness influences your glucose
levels.
Knowing Your Trends
Providing sensor glucose readings every five minutes, for up to seven days,
the G5x helps you detect trends and patterns. Trend information reveals
where your glucose is now, where it’s been, where it’s heading, and how fast
it’s changing.
Understanding your trends allows you to take proactive action, helping you
avoid dangerously low or high glucose values.
Using Dexcom Share (see Part 5) allows friends and family, your Followers, to
monitor your glucose activity, adding another layer of support and peace of
mind.
Simplified Sensor Insertion
The redesigned G5x sensor applicator allows you to insert a sensor with fewer
steps while using just one hand. Fewer steps simplify the insertion process.
Helping Your Diabetes Management
Wearing the G5x on a consistent and ongoing basis helps you manage your
diabetes. The Alarm/Alerts features (see Chapter 11) keep you aware of your
glucose levels. Alerts notify you when your glucose goes outside your target
range or is rapidly falling or rising, letting you take action before you get too
low or too high. The Urgent Low Glucose Alarm lets you know when you are
dangerously or urgently low, going below 55 mg/dL. By taking corrective
measures, you reduce the time spent in your low/high range, while increasing
time in your target range (Garg, S. Z., 2006) (Battelino, T., 2011).
Real-time CGM can help improve your A1C as well as improve the quality of
your glucose control. If you are at or below 7%, using a CGM such as the G5x
helps reduce hypoglycemia (Tamborlane, W. V., 2008).
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