The mealtime dosage calculator is intended as an aid in figuring mealtime rapid-acting insulin requirements. It should only be used under the supervision and guidance of your health care team.
Below is an Excel spreadsheet form. To use it, follow these steps:
- Save the form to your computer
- Open Microsoft Excel and then open the form
- Enter your TARGET BG level (in mg/dl), as determined by you and your physician
- Enter your SENSITIVITY FACTOR (in mg/dl), which represents the amount that one unit of rapid-acting insulin lowers your blood sugar
- Enter your CARB:INSULIN RATIO, which represents the amount of carbohydate "covered" by 1 unit of rapid-acting insulin. Note that different ratios (and different charts) may be needed for different meals
- If you typically need reduce your mealtime insulin for exercise, you can create a special chart for exercise situations. If you want to reduce your dose by 25% for exercise, enter ".75" as the EXERCISE FACTOR. If you want to reduce by 40%, enter ".60" as your EXERCISE FACTOR, and so on
- Print out the chart. At mealtimes, find your carb count along the top row, your blood sugar in the lefthand column, and line them up to find an appropriate insulin dose
* Note that this chart does not take active/unused insulin from previous doses into account.
The mealtime dosage calculator form
