The actors of innovation in the field of health meet in Paris at the Medintechs fair on Monday and Tuesday to talk about “e-health”. To overcome the lack of doctors or infrastructure, professionals are testing devices, such as the MyDiabby application.
Robin has a sensor on his left arm to read his blood sugar and a pump attached to his right arm to receive insulin. At 11, he has mastered perfectly MyDiabbyan application provided by the Malaunay hospital, in Seine-Maritime. “I click on: ‘Add the data of the day’he shows. There, there is the curve with all the blood sugar levels”.
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This curve that we see on the screen is the obsession of her mother, Aude. “When I went to see last night, it was low limit. So I stopped the basal flow a little bit so that it could go up slowly.she explains. So afterwards he was fine. He was fine this morning at breakfast and since then he has been too high, he has been above the target. If Robin is hypo or hyperglycemic, the application reports it to his parents.
“It reassures the parents, so it’s better.”
Robin, 11 years oldat franceinfo
This application also allows you to be in almost direct contact with the team following Robin for his diabetes. “We’ve been taught how to adjust the insulin doses, but we don’t always manage it. If we don’t manage it, we can contact the hospital and we always have someone – a diabetes nurse, a diabetologist – who can look like that, quickly, and give us advice, make us change the ratios. We are not lost. There is always someone with us”confides Aude, a mother visibly reassured by the system.
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In the Rouen region, 370 diabetic children are monitored with this application. It allows Dr. Alexandre Naccache to intervene when blood sugar levels vary dangerously. In toddlers, it is quite common or when children catch a virus or do not follow the treatment rigorously.
“We really see a lot of things about what happens in the daily lives of patients.”
Dr Alexandre Naccacheat franceinfo
“We can really see when they are hyperglycemic, when they are hypoglycemic, we see the doses that are done, the doses that are not done.lists Dr. Naccache. The other advantage, in fact, is to be able to do a closer follow-up sometimes without the parents having to come to the hospital. For patients who are quite far away, who have somewhat difficult means of transport, this is another advantage”appreciates the pediatrician.
The app has another benefit for Robin: it allows her to go on vacation to her grandmother’s house without having to monitor her grandson’s diabetes. Robin’s parents take care of it from a distance.
An app to follow diabetic children from a distance – report in Malaunay in Seine-Maritime by Anne-Laure Dagnet
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