Norma Sugar - a startup to help diabetics

Diabetes is the largest noncommunicable epidemic of the 21st century. According to the World Health Organization, 8 to 12% of the human population suffers from diabetes. We will not talk about hundreds of millions of patients - it is too difficult to visualize.
Let's just say it. If we are talking about 8% of the population, then this is almost every twelfth. If about 12% - this is one in eight.

Now imagine that you are sitting in a movie theater. A number in front of you; people in your row, to your right and left; the row is yours. So - just reach out: forward, backward, right, left. And you will certainly come across a diabetic. This is what diabetes penetrates into the human population.

If diabetes is not treated - meticulously, every day and hour, it will kill the patient with a 100% probability. This can happen five or twenty years after the actual onset of the disease - it does not matter. The important thing is that there are no exceptions to the rule.

Sadly, it is a fact: diabetes cannot be cured today. But it is possible to compensate. And do not let the disease take away from the person those years of life that she will surely take if he does not work on himself, reaching the necessary compensation every day, but will let everything go by chance and rely on the great Russian “maybe”.
Diabetes mellitus is roughly divided into insulin-dependent and non-insulin-dependent, or type I and II diabetes; they also distinguish a special form, which today is called “neither I nor II”. However, regardless of the causes and characteristics of the course of diabetes, its compensation requires at least:

• daily measurement of blood sugar levels at least 6 times a day and the patient constantly keeping a diary of self-monitoring, which not only notes blood sugar levels at certain hours, but also - what was eaten, what was the physical load, what doses of insulin were injected;
• continuous injections of insulin in type I and type II diabetics;
• specialized drug therapy for type II diabetics;
• specialized diet therapy for all diabetics, without exception;
• continuous regular (often daily) consultative medical care.

In the real conditions of the current state of Russian healthcare, it is often impossible to provide all the components of the treatment process in sufficient quantity and quality, and especially the one that we designated under number 5, unfortunately. Endocrinologists have an exorbitant workload, and in many cases they are only enough to write prescriptions for free insulin and test strips for glucometers.
How to fix the situation? Now the impossible has become possible.

Now, patients with diabetes have a very sensible assistant in their daily care of their health. It is called NormaSahar .

Norma Sugar- This is an automated online patient monitoring system based on smartphones and web servers, which allows not only monitoring blood glucose levels and recommends insulin doses needed to compensate for the disease in semi-automatic mode, but also organizing remote medical consultations for patients through the Internet and phone.
Our methodological approach allows patients with diabetes to constantly keep their condition under control, not to start the disease and to avoid the development of severe complications of diabetes, leading to disability and death. In human language: we return sick time for a fulfilling life. And we provide the real quality of this life, moreover, as it is hardly possible to achieve without NormaSahar.
In order to start using the NormaSugar service and a mobile assistant, you must register on the main page www.NormaSugar.ru or www.NormaSugar.rf .



When registering on the site, the patient will be asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire that meticulously characterizes his disease - a kind of medical history.



But, having done this once, you no longer have to talk about your disease many times, as it happens every time you go to the doctor in the clinic, and every time your doctor changes. At any time when you need a consultation, you just need to contact a qualified medical consultant from your smartphone, and at any time of the day, the problems that arise will immediately begin to be resolved. It is no longer necessary to spend time and energy on the story of all the details anew, since the doctor immediately has access to all the necessary information about the patient’s health.

The mobile version displays Active Insulin, Blood Sugar, Food, Physical Exercise, Bolus (poplite) and Hypoglycemia.



Active Insulin displays the amount of insulin that is left in the body from previous insulin boluses (pods), and which has a sugar-lowering effect. Accounting for active insulin can reduce the likelihood of hypoglycemia. All this is calculated automatically, depending on the set parameter “active insulin time”.



In the "Blood Sugar" section, you need to enter the level of sugar that was measured with a glucometer.



In "Food" you can manually enter the amount of carbohydrates grams or XE (bread units), and also using the "search for products" and "product categories" quickly select what was eaten (or just supposed to eat), while the number of grams is automatically displayed carbohydrates and calories.



In "Physical activity" you can specify the type, intensity and duration of physical activity!



In the section “Hypoglycemia” you can note your condition not only during hypoglycemia, but also keep additional information - for example, ketones in the urine, temperature, etc.



And now the most interesting. In the “Bolus” section, depending on the prescribed treatment regimen, food consumed, physical activity and target values ​​of the blood glucose level, an individual insulin dose will be calculated for the current situation. And with an accuracy of 0.1 units!



On the site, our patients can view all the records made through the mobile version, reports, treatment regimen, and also soon consult with a specialist. This feature is not available in the beta version for a very simple reason - right now we are busy obtaining a license for medical activities for the NormSahar Clinic, and as soon as it is issued, consultative medical work will begin the next day.





The NormaSahar system is unique. There are no analogues on the Russian market. In order to start using the NormaSahar system , you just need to register on the website www.NormaSugar.ru or www.NormaSugar.rf and download the mobile version of the client to your smartphone on the Google Android platform.Norma Sugar . IPhone OS and Windows Phone platforms will also be available shortly.

System NormaSahar recently won a grant of $ 50,000 from the Foundation Seed Investment Microsoft Russia. NormaSahar is also a member of the Microsoft Bizspark program, thanks to which it has preferential Windows-Server hosting, access to free Microsoft development tools and, in addition, free licenses for Windows 7 and Microsoft Office on developers' computers.

NormaSahar is constantly evolving and improving. In the 6 weeks since the public launch of the system, the thirteenth version of the NormaSahar beta is already working today. Stay tuned for new features and improvements!

You can help us with the development.NormaSugar and affect the development of the NormaSugar system ! Write your feedback. Tell us what features you are missing, what we can add to the system personally for you. Just write to us at [email protected] .
We need feedback from you like air. More precisely, like insulin :)