What is XactBHB Strip?
Our product is the first ever non-invasive option to detect BHB. This urine BHB test with a phone application will allow clinicians and patients to get both a qualitative and a quantitative value from their urine sample. This gives an accurate representation of the patient’s current clinical status to help the healthcare provider make the most appropriate clinical and cost effective decision. Our cloud based software can be shared across multiple healthcare platforms.
For whom the XactBHB strip is for?
XactBHB strips can be used by healthcare practitioners along with diabetes and keto dieters in the home setting as well. First, it offers the healthcare provider, whether in the office setting or in the hospital, a cost-effective and accurate means to assess a patient's BHB level. This will allow urgent care practitioners a way to quickly assess the health status of a diabetic patient to streamline the triage process and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions related to DKA. If admitted for DKA this test will reduce overall hospital stay time by providing a more accurate means to determine the resolution of acidosis leading to earlier discharge of the patient. Furthermore, providing this test to discharged patients so they can continue to monitor their BHB levels at home will minimize the chance of re-hospitalization for subsequent DKA episodes. Secondly, having the test available to the consumer gives diabetic patients the ability to monitor their BHB levels at home without additional finger-prick testing. This allows the diabetic patient a cost-effective way to proactively monitor this essential marker to help prevent the onset of DKA. Third, The product also gives ketogenic dieters the ability to test whether or not they have reached nutritional ketosis (0.5 mmol/l BHB) without expensive capillary finger prick testing.
Why do to you need the BHB Strip everyday?
Why it is important?
As a diabetic one of the most important values to track is your BHB level. Rising BHB values are an indication that your body is moving into a life-threatening condition known as DKA. This condition is the most serious reason for hospitalizations within the diabetic community. The onset and progression of DKA can happen very quickly which is why it is important to monitor for rising levels of BHB daily. Having a rapid, affordable way to screen for increasing BHB levels will allow diabetics to quickly assess what is happening with their health and along with their healthcare provider, take the necessary steps to prevent the progression towards DKA.
As a patient who has been prescribed a type of medication called a sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT 2), DKA is also a concern. One of the known side-effects of this medication is that it can cause a patient to go into DKA even when their blood glucose levels appear normal. This is a condition known as euglycemic DKA. Daily testing of BHB levels for a patient on this type of medication using the XactBHB strip will significantly help to mitigate the risk of this known side-effect.
As a ketogenic dieter understanding what your BHB level is constitutes the foundation of this type of diet. Only once you have consistent BHB values of 0.5 mmol/l have you reached nutritional ketosis. Currently, the only option for dieters to know what their BHB values are is through capillary finger-prick testing. This is a painful and expensive means of tracking your levels. Using the XactBHB strips with their phone app. allows dieters to test multiple times per day without pricking their fingers at a fraction of the cost and without the need for a blood meter.
How our XactBHB strip work and benefits?
We have developed XactBHB® the FIRST EVER URINE β-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) quantitative dipstick test for early detection of Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Quantitatively (after the strip is exposed to urine) the patient/healthcare provider can use their mobile phone to take a photo. We have developed a phone application ( free from the Apple app store) with the ability to use the phone’s camera to calculate a true quantitative numeric value via color wavelength differential from baseline. These values will be uploaded to our cloud-based, EHR-compliant, software system that will allow the patient’s healthcare provider to see the results.This cloud-based software application will be the first to allow for telehealth appointments between the patient and their healthcare provider to address any concerns related to the urine β-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) detection.