SLEEP SENTRY NOW FDA APPROVED!!!
Dear Diabetes Educator,
Diabetes Sentry Products would like to introduce to you, a product
that may be able to assist some of your patients who experience severe
hypoglycemia while sleeping.
The Sleep Sentry® is designed to alarm when a person with diabetes
is experiencing the symptoms of hypoglycemia while
sleeping, namely, perspiration and a drop in body temperature. This
device is not for everyone with diabetes. It is designed for people
with hypoglycemia so severe that they are afraid to sleep at night.
As you are aware, hypoglycemia can be dangerous and sometimes life threatening
to the person with insulin dependant diabetes, especially during sleep.
Diabetes is already a great stress on ones body, sleep deprivation can
only add to this stress. With the Sleep Sentry® your patients can
rest easier knowing that the monitor will alarm when they begin to perspire
or have a drop in body temperature. Patients must be advised to always
test their blood sugars after an alarm as the Sleep Sentry® is very
sensitive and will sometimes give “false positives”, meaning
if they perspire for any reason including nightmares, the flu etc. the
alarm will sound. Most people would rather live with the false positives
than with the possibility of missing a true hypoglycemic episode while
asleep.
The Sleep Sentry® was originally designed by Teledyne Avionics in
the 1980’s and many people with diabetes are still using the original
monitor. DSP is re-introducing the redesigned Sleep Sentry® which
is the only non-invasive monitor available today which detects the symptoms
of hypoglycemia.
http://www.sleepsentry.com/
Diabetes Sentry Products
1200 Dupont St., Suite 1-D
Bellingham, WA 98225
Phone 1-866-270-5675
Fax 360-671-1996
