It’s been years since I’ve talked to anyone working on this technology, but IIRC one of the issues was that in principle you could prevent the lag from leading to bad data that kills you if the pump could also provide glucagon, but there was no way to make glucagon shelf-stable enough to have in a pump. Apparently that changed as of 2019/2020, or is in the process of changing, so maybe someone will make a pump with both.
I mean, just lag, yes, but there’s also plain old incorrect readings. But yes, it would be cool to have a system that incorporated glucagon. Though, diabetics’ body still produce glucagon AFAIK, so it’d really be better to just have something that senses glucose and releases insulin the same way a working pancreas would.
It’s been years since I’ve talked to anyone working on this technology, but IIRC one of the issues was that in principle you could prevent the lag from leading to bad data that kills you if the pump could also provide glucagon, but there was no way to make glucagon shelf-stable enough to have in a pump. Apparently that changed as of 2019/2020, or is in the process of changing, so maybe someone will make a pump with both.
I mean, just lag, yes, but there’s also plain old incorrect readings. But yes, it would be cool to have a system that incorporated glucagon. Though, diabetics’ body still produce glucagon AFAIK, so it’d really be better to just have something that senses glucose and releases insulin the same way a working pancreas would.