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When you have completed setting up your alerts, tap Home to return to the
Guardian Connect Home screen.
Setting low alerts
The following table describes the low alert settings:
Low alert
Description
setting
Low Limit
Your low limit is the value on which your other low settings are based. Your low limit can
be set from 2.8 mmol/L to 5 mmol/L (50 mg/dL to 90 mg/dL). On your sensor glucose
graph, your low limit appears as a red horizontal line at the value that you set.
Alert on
When Alert on Low is on, your system displays a Low Sensor Glucose alert when your
Low
sensor glucose value reaches or falls below your low limit.
Alert Be-
When Alert Before Low is on, you will receive a Low Predicted alert any time the sensor
fore Low
glucose is predicted to reach your low limit. This makes you aware of potential lows be-
fore they occur.
Time Be-
Time Before Low is available only when Alert Before Low is on. Time Before Low deter-
fore Low
mines when you will receive a Low Predicted Alert, if your sensor glucose values contin-
ue to decrease at the current rate of change. You can set a time between ten minutes
and one hour.
You can define your low alert settings for the entire day or use different settings
during the day and at night.
To set your low alerts:
1
On the Guardian Connect Home screen, tap
Alerts.
2
Toggle All Day to switch between all-day alerts and different alerts for day and
night.
If you choose to set different alerts for day and night, two sets of settings appear.
3
For daytime alerts, tap Day starts at and set the start time for the selected day
period.
4
Tap Low Limit and set the desired limit between 2.8 mmol/L and 5 mmol/L (50
mg/dL to 90 mg/dL).
This toggles Alert on Low on.
5
Return to the Low Alerts screen and tap Save.
6
If you want to receive alerts when your sensor glucose is approaching your low
limit:
and select Alert Settings > Low
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