User's Manual

Dexcom G5 Mobile System User Guide
On the Go With G5: Customizing Your Alarm and Alerts
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Low and High
Adjust your Low and High Glucose Alert levels (mg/dL) along with turning on
and setting the time for the Repeat prompt.
Rise and Fall Rates
Your trend screen provides visual cues letting you know your sensor glucose
readings are falling or rising rapidly.
Constantly looking at your screen may not be practical. You can customize
your Rise and Fall Rate Alerts with vibrations or beeps letting you know when
your glucose is rising or falling (2 mg/dL/min or 30 mg/dL up or down in 15
minutes) or rising or falling rapidly (3 or more mg/dL/min or 45 mg/dL or more
up or down in 15 minutes).
The default setting is
Off for Repeat, Rise Rate, and Fall Rate.
It’s important that you discuss your Alert settings with your healthcare
professional.
Signal Loss
Signal Loss Alert tells you when your transmitter and receiver aren’t
communicating. Set the Signal Loss Alert and get alerted if your sensor
glucose readings have stopped due to a signal loss lasting anywhere from 20
to 200 minutes.
The default setting for Signal Loss is
On .
Steps to Customize Receiver Alarm/Alerts
Using the same example from changing your app Alerts, let’s change the
receiver’s High Alert level from 200 mg/dL to 190 mg/dL, repeating every 60
minutes.
Follow these same steps for turning on the Rise/Fall Rate Alerts and adjusting
your Low Alerts.
Customizing Alerts: Receiver
Step What you see What it means What you do