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• • G—PHYSICS
  • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
  • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
  • G09B19/00—Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass
  • G09B19/0092—Nutrition
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G16—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
  • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
  • G16H20/00—ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
  • G16H20/60—ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G16—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR SPECIFIC APPLICATION FIELDS
  • G16H—HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
  • G16H70/00—ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of medical references

Definitions

• the present invention relates to the method for supplying nutritional data of meals and beverages to diabetics.
• Diabetes mellitus is a serious and chronic disorder accompanying the patient from its manifestation down to the end of his/her life. It is caused by loss of insulin secretion or loss of insulin effect in the tissues.
• the insulin missing in the organism due to this disease should be regularly delivered in form of injections in parallel with controlling blood glucose and consistent maintaining the balance between the saccharides received in the food and the doses of insulin applied.
• a patient who consistently monitors these parameters ought to evaluate the respective nutritional value and adapt the dosage of insulin expressed in carbohydrate units prior to taking any meal or beverage containing saccharides. Or, the other way round, the patient ought to learn how to allot the corresponding mass of received food or drink to a certain number of carbohydrate units.
• the published patent application US 2004054263 discloses the way of monitoring in diabetics by way of a mobile telephone connectable with the glucometre of the patient.
• the mobile telephone transmits the information of the momentary condition of the patient to the health centre and the health centre sends, by way of telephone, a recommendation relating to the quantity and composition of food, the amount of physical load etc. to the patient.
• Operating such a system is both technically and materially very demanding, while solving only professional assistance when the patient reacts to the measured value of blood glucose. Moreover, it requires permanent or at least frequent on-line linking to the network.
• the method for supplying nutritional data to diabetics resides in that a database of foods and drinks structured according to categories, groups and types is located on an Internet server.
• This database is in a format that enables loading to a mobile phone supporting the respective system platform.
• Each food and drink is allotted its nutritional value expressed in carbohydrate units, and along with the database a search program is located on the server.
• the patient gets connected to the server by way of his/her mobile telephone equipped with a protocol for the Internet connection and for the respective program platform, the database with the program is loaded to the telephone memory, whereupon - off-line already, by controlling push buttons of the telephone keyboard, the respective types of meals and beverages with their allotted nutritional values, or else the carbohydrate units according to the selected amount of meal or beverage can be found.
• a serial number of such device or possibly an activation code provided by the manufacturer or supplier of the device, as a key for connecting the mobile telephone to the server.
• the size of the carbohydrate unit used by the patient can be set by way of the keyboard.
• the selected meal can be found in the menu according to category, group, type, or name.
• a number of meals and/or beverages will be selected on the display within the chosen amounts, the allotted nutritional value being the sum of nutritional values of the chosen meals and beverages.
• the amount of the chosen meal or beverage can be entered and the respective number of carbohydrate units can be found, or else the number of carbohydrate units can be set and the respective quantity is allotted to them.
• the database loaded to the telephone memory can be complemented by adding further types of foods and drinks with their corresponding nutritional values, using the keyboard.
• the server www.medatron.cz connected to the Internet was used to emplace the database of meals and beverages comprising 1635 items, as well as a program for searching this database.
• the volume of data comprised in this package amounts to 56 kB.
• a patient having a mobile telephone NOKIA 6230 equipped with the WAP protocol and JAVA program platform gets connected to the server, logs-in by way of the serial number of his/her insulin pump and loads the database with search program into the telephone memory.
• the database working regime is as follows: First of all the size of carbohydrate unit used by the patient, i.e. 10 g or 12 g of saccharides, should be set on the phone display by way of the keyboard.
• the amount is selected - the weight, volume or number of pieces that the patient intends to consume.
• the display shows automatically the corresponding nutritional value expressed in carbohydrate units. If the number of carbohydrate units is determined first, the corresponding amount of food or drink will automatically appear in the display.
• the selected meal or beverage can be combined by adding further items from the menu, thus creating a dish set. During this procedure each meal or beverage or their combination is provided by further data in addition to the carbohydrate units, and namely the mass content of saccharides, fats, and proteins and the total caloric value.
• further food according to the patient choice can be added to the display, its nutritional value can be allotted and then it can be entered to the respective segment of the database.
• the method according to the present invention enables the patient, according to the composition and amount of food intended to be consumed, to react with the help of the mobile phone off-line, operatively and very precisely, by supplying the respective amount of insulin carbohydrate units into his/her blood circulation, or else to react to the applied insulin dose by consuming a corresponding amount of food.

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