what you can do now and what you can do in the future

The Apple Watch is a very complete health device and can monitor diabetes, waiting for more promising functions

He Apple Watch is a powerful health tool which has been evolving over the years and improving its sensors. And it can also be an important tool for all those users diagnosed with diabetes. This condition in blood glucose levels can cause many problems and Apple Watch can help with everything it can do now and what it could do in the future.

How you can control diabetes with Apple Watch now

To monitor diabetes from the Apple Watch we currently have two options. On the one hand, use some of the best apps to control glucose level that we have available and enter the data manually and, on the other, use apps that connect with sensors of glucose that we can carry in the body, this second option being one of the most interesting.

Apps to control glucose level from the Apple Watch

Currently we have numerous apps that allow us to control the glucose level from the Apple Watch. These are the most notable options:

Glucomate: Diabetes Monitor

Glucomate is a very well designed app that displays data clearly and accuratelywith easy-to-understand summaries and more detailed graphs and lists of data. It can be used to record your blood sugar if you check it manually, like a log, or it can read your glucose readings from HealthKit, so it can take data from sensors that save measurements in the Apple Health app.

SocialDiabetes

SocialDiabetes is a software designed for self-management of type 1 and 2 diabeteswhich allows you to record key data such as blood glucose, insulin, carbohydrates, medications and physical activity. It facilitates the calculation of the bolus insulin dose by taking into account factors such as insulin sensitivity, insulin-carbohydrate ratios and target blood glucose range, improving glycemic control directly from the smartphone.

Dexcom G7

This is one of the best ways to manage diabetes if you have an Apple Watch. The Dexcom G7 sensor has its own application for the Apple Watch from which you can monitor the glucose level in your blood at all times. In addition, it has notifications that you will receive on your wrist up to 20 minutes before glucose drops.

The Dexcom G7 sensor has Direct to Watch mode and connects directly to an Apple Watch, giving you the possibility of having real-time glucose readings on your wrist without having to carry your mobile phone.

One of the most famous and used glucose sensors, FreeStyle Libreis one of the most used options, but it does not have an app adapted for the Apple Watch, only for the iPhone.

The future of the Apple Watch lies in a blood glucose sensor

Apple has been investigating for many years the possibility of including a non-invasive glucose sensor in the Apple Watch that could revolutionize the lives of thousands of people diagnosed with diabetes. But for the moment has not been able to make it reliable enough enough to include it in your watch.

Although this is Apple’s long-term goal, we are not clear when a sensor capable of carrying out this type of measurements will be launched, since the information obtained has to be extremely precise. Light-powered glucose sensors exist, but they are currently too large to be included in an Apple Watch.

In the short term, we know that Apple is working on an improvement to the Health app to prevent diabetes, which could be helped by the current Apple Watch sensors. Although it is only one of the company’s fields of research. It is possible that we will see new developments in this regard in future software updates.

Other Apple Watch health features that may be useful

He Apple Watch is packed with health sensors and is capable of offering many parameters that can help us in multiple ways to better manage diabetes and help us have a healthier lifestyle. With the Apple Watch we can:

• Measure heart rate: the Apple Watch sensors offer a precise measurement of our pulse, offering us alerts if it increases or decreases in an unusual way.
• Perform an electrocardiogram: a fairly accurate test that can help us identify heart problems that have not yet been identified.
• Measure the level of oxygen in the blood: another test that the Apple Watch is capable of performing and that can offer us interesting data, especially if we have diabetes or another disease.
• Sleep control: sleeping well is essential for health, especially if you have any type of illness.
• Detect sleep apnea: one of the latest functions that allows us to detect this difficult sleep disorder.

The Apple Watch is a device capable of measure numerous parameters of our health and we hope that in the future it will also be able to measure blood glucose levels. It would be great news for thousands of users around the world.

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