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Trend Arrows (continued from page before)
Rapidly rising: Your glucose is rising more than 3 mg/dL each
minute. If it continued rising at this rate, your glucose could increase
more than 45 mg/dL in 15 minutes.
Slowly falling: Your glucose is falling 1-2 mg/dL each minute. If it
continued falling at this rate, your glucose could decrease up to 30
mg/dL in 15 minutes.
Falling: Your glucose is falling 2-3 mg/dL each minute. If it continued
falling at this rate, your glucose could decrease up to 45 mg/dL in 15
minutes.
Rapidly falling: Your glucose is falling more than 3 mg/dL each
minute. If it continued falling at this rate, your glucose could decrease
more than 45 mg/dL in 15 minutes.
No rate of change information: The receiver cannot calculate how
No arrow
fast your glucose is rising or falling at this time.
Trend arrows show to the right of your sensor glucose reading.
They tell you more about your glucose's speed and direction.
Trend arrows do not show when there are
glucose data gaps (see Chapter 13, Section
13.4, System Glucose Error). If the glucose
reading error symbol
, the out of range symbol
calibration needed symbol
top of the trend graph, the trend arrows will
not show.
If the trend arrow is missing, but you are
concerned that your blood glucose level
may be rising or falling, take a blood glucose
measurement test on your blood glucose meter.
, the wait symbol
, or the
show at the
Dexcom G4 PLATINUM (Pediatric) System User's Guide
Trend graph with
out of range symbol
in upper right and
glucose data gaps
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