How To Turn Off Tandem Pump

*Disclaimer: Talk with your endocrinologist before you practice this. This stumped our endo and I am happy I establish a manner to disable this *

What Happened

A is my 11 year old autistic son. He is too a type 1 diabetic. He uses the Tandem T-slim x2. Information technology connects with his Dexcom, which is a blazon of continuous glucose monitor (CGM). This allows usa to know what his blood glucose is without having to pierce his finger all day. It allows him to be more of a kid and not testing continuously. The Dexcom even pushes his BG to my phone and my partner'southward telephone.

When I was setting up the pump, I just went through the default settings. DO Not DO THIS. there is ane setting that was causing him to wake upwardly high. This is the auto off function. And so, this function stops all insulin deliveries if the pump is inactive for a certain amount of fourth dimension. This office is very useful for an adult, but for a preteen who likes to sleep in on the weekends, this causes high glucose.

We asked his endocrinologist. She did not know why information technology was doing it. She reached out to the Tandem rep, they had no idea. We were merely vigilant in stopping it when it machine shut off. 1 matter about a child who is autistic and is and then hyper focused, he ignores, does not hear or does not admit the pump or Dexcom when it alerts him.

Anyway, I had to get out early on for work this morning and saw his BG was a scrap high. I called him into the room while I was getting ready.

I saw this:

All deliveries stopped! No activity for more than 12 hours.

We bolused (gave insulin) for his loftier, information technology wasn't above what Dexcom could read, thankfully. No ketones. So I sent him back to bed.

While with a cat, waiting for the cat to consume, I googled on how to disable information technology. It took a while and Tandem does not make this very attainable, and so I am sharing with y'all on how to practice it.

How to Disable this Part

After googling this, I was able to disable the function rather easily but the directions were difficult to discover.

Directions from Tandem:

The default for this warning is preset to 12 hours. You can set it anywhere between v and 24 hours, or off. To customize this alarm, tap OPTIONS > MY PUMP > ALERTS & REMINDERS > PUMP ALERTS > Motorcar-OFF. Note: information technology is always recommended that yous consult with your healthcare provider before making whatever settings adjustments.

These directions are not very attainable.

A was very dainty to allow me to accept photos of his pump in order to prove y'all.