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.
Who should be using XactBHB strips?
- XactBHB strips can be used inpatient by healthcare practitioners and at home by diabetic patients or people eating the ketogenic diet. XactBHB allows urgent care practitioners to quickly assess the health status of a patient to streamline the triage process and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions related to DKA. In addition, 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.
- Having XactBHB available in the home setting allows diabetic patients to monitor their BHB levels and prevent unnecessary trips to urgent care centers or the hospital ER (emergency room).
- Lastly, XactBHB gives ketogenic dieters the ability to determine whether or not they are eating the diet correctly and have reached nutritional ketosis (defined as 0.5 mmol/l BHB)
How does XactBHB work?
If β-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB) is present, 90 seconds after the XactBHB strip is exposed to the urine sample, you will see the strip begin to change color. The color change is a three step chemical reaction detecting the presence of β-Hydroxybutyrate (BHB). You then have two options to determine the urine BHB value:
1) Hold the strip up against the color scale on the labeled bottle for a qualitative (visual) value
2) Use the XactBHB mobile phone application to obtain a quantitative (numeric) value