Agreed. I feel like with everything an Apple Watch can supposedly monitor for you and all the health gadgets like this that produce a ton of results, one could really become addicted to tracking yourself and ultimately make your health worse (both mental and physical).
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Withings Launches iPhone-Connected Urine Reader That Goes in Your Toilet
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Your impressive ability to see and smell does not help much in kidney stone prevention.
So you manually remove it from the toilet bowl, then install it back into the toilet bowl each time?
That's not a great selling point. Surely the whole logic of it is that you install it and it send sdata to the app, instead of tmanually taking a pee sample or using a paper strip. If you can't just install it and forget it's there, what's the point?
This product makes less and less sense.
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I've had kidney stones. They are horrible.
But the thing about kindness stones is that you are very aware something's going wrong with your bladder and kidneys - you don't need an app to tell you that. Again from the discomfort and the act of peeing being different to as it was before, your pee might well contain "sand", tiny traces of crystalized minerals, the same substance that makes up the "stones". You pee may also be more "foamy", which is also a sign of other kidney / liver / bladder issues.
Honestly, if you have kidney stones, even in the early stages, you won't need an app to tell you that unless you are very unobservant about your own body.
If you have any suspicion at all that you are developing kidney stones, don't buy a sensor and an app - go to a doctor and get a urine test, a blood test, and an ultrasound examination.
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Wii U??It's Wii, not U.
Sorry…
Back on topic, these "smart" devices are creepily getting out of control.
^^ This just isn't so. People with a propensity to develop kidney stones want to know (1) why they do so (calcium vs. oxalate vs. uric acid) and (2) if they have them currently. It is also not true that people are always aware they have them. In fact, many people have kidney stones that continue to grow without any symptoms until they are too big to pass.
Technically, it is not free, you're all just paying for it differently. Not saying that's better or worse, but there's no such thing as "free" here. Just because you don't pay a bill when you walk out of the office doesn't mean it's not showing up on someone's bill (maybe even your own), somewhere, in some portion/share, usually at the end of the tax year...
But I have a propensity to develop kidney stones. And I very much do not believe this app is a valid replacement for traditional methods of preventing and managing kidney stones. This is not a valid replacement for having regular check-ups, in the case you're describing.
When you are talking about "people", you're talking about me. This product is NOT a valid alternative.
Wasn’t this announced like 3 years ago?
My bad. I remember reading about this years ago, so wrote my first thoughts.
My bad. I remember reading about this years ago, so wrote my first thoughts.
Excellent post. It goes further these days.. pushing public to try interstitial glucose markers shown by expensive products like Libre or Dexcom for routine day to day exercise. If you're seeing 60 point variations, that's absolutely fine. Meanwhile some overreact to what they see. Go talk to a type 1 diabetic about ketone and glucose fluctuations, and numbers they see for a reference point.
It's not that bad guys, you only have to touch the inside of your toiletbowl 4 times a year at most.
You are right and some people do.
I got an Apple Watch partly, probably largely, because I know I have an issue - atrial fibrillation and tachycardia.
Like anyone, I was looking quite a bit to begin with. But my intent was simply to accumulate background information. So that I could see if something changes over months or years.
Initially I got quite a few high heart rate alerts. However I then adjusted something - my levothyroxine dose. Increased by 12.5 micrograms. Over the next weeks, I got fewer and fewer alerts. One in each of the last two months - when I had sometimes been getting four or more in a day.
It is precisely because it collects its data in the background that I can mostly forget about it.
Still afib 100% of the time!
Pricing is wild. I don't see who's going to drop that kind of money for such. It'd be one thing if it was FDA approved and you could charge it to your insurance but as it sits, that's not likely the case.
Absolutely no idea who this is for. Vitamin C, pH, and hydration - great, but why. Lots of other options and all far far cheaper and more comprehensive. Ketones - maybe valuable for a small number - who will already likely have this data already any way.
This completes the circle of data collection on a person.
Location-check
connected persons-Check
Sleeping-check
Eating processes-check
Love them Phones!
Extension of ones self!
TURN IT OFF!
Location-check
connected persons-Check
Sleeping-check
Eating processes-check
Love them Phones!
Extension of ones self!
TURN IT OFF!