Stelo Glucose Biosensor Overview

For patients looking to better understand their health, Dexcom’s Stelo, an over-the-counter biosensor that provides a real-time look at your blood sugar levels. This 24/7 wearable continuous glucose monitor shows how food, exercise and sleep can affect your personal glucose levels—thus allowing you to understand and make better lifestyle choices for a healthier you.

For those with Type 2 diabetes not on insulin, this is a must-have affordable addition to your wellness portfolio. In Type 2 diabetes, the body doesn’t produce enough insulin or becomes insulin resistant over time. Approximately 90-95% of people diagnosed with diabetes have Type 2 diabetes. Those individuals who control their glucose levels via oral medication might not have access to continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) that were only covered through insurance. Stelo is a gamechanger—no insurance needed and no prescription required!

Tracking Made Easy

CGMs are smart sensors that poke through the skin to provide real-time readings on current blood sugar levels. Stelo is worn on the upper arm and lasts for up to 15 days¹ before needing to be replaced. Stelo has the highest waterproof rating of any glucose biosensor. Note: There are no alerts or warnings for low sugar levels. Instead, by providing full-time data, the goal is to improve your life through better lifestyle choices.

Proven and Effective Technology

Stelo is built on Dexcom’s industry-leading CGM technology. Users can easily track their current glucose levels and monitor spikes as they happen. Stelo can offer a deeper understanding of what your blood sugar looks like and how it is positively or negatively impacted by food, timing of meals, exercise, or sleep. This data can help guide better daily choices. This can be particularly useful for diabetics who do not regularly check their blood sugar levels with finger pricks.

New! Generative AI Platform

Made for use by any adult who doesn’t take insulin, the Stelo is an ideal companion for tracking glucose levels. It provides real-time results and a target range to which sugar levels should stay within, helping all users feel more educated about their glucose. 

Dexcom has been working with Google’s Gemini models and its Vertex AI platform to offer more valuable and customized insights to users. This feature gives users personalized weekly reports of relevant tips and educational information to assist them in enhancing their overall health. Eventually, Dexcom will use this generative AI to deliver real-time feedback rather than weekly reports to its users. Also being explored is how AI can act as a predictive indicator for any potential problems that could arise.

Stelo App

The Stelo Biosensor connects to the Stelo app (available for download in the app store). This app will show a user’s glucose levels and target range that reveals how their body is affected by glucose. These easy-to-understand and quickly accessible insights help users make informed decisions about their bodies and what is best for them. 

In-App Features

• Spike Detection: Stelo will show trends when meaningful spikes happen due to meal, stress, or activity, helping the user know when and how to adjust their habits
• Powerful Insights: Personalized insights and daily tips reveal the steps a user can take to build momentum and achieve better glucose wellness
• Learning: With expert-curated information, helpful tips, and other guidance, users will feel more educated and confident to make healthier choices and habits
• Meal and Activity Logging: Users can easily track meals and physical activity within the Stelo app, which helps show how their body responds to both food and exercise
• Connect to Other Health Apps: Users can integrate exercise and sleep data from their favorite health-tracking apps within the Stelo app

What’s Included?

Box of two (2) biosensors (Total Wear Time: Up to 30 Days)

STELO IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Consult your healthcare provider before making any medication adjustments based on your sensor readings and do not take any other medical action based on your sensor readings without consulting your healthcare provider. Do not use if you have problematic hypoglycemia. Failure to use Stelo and its components according to the instructions for use provided and to properly consider all indications, contraindications, warnings, and cautions in those instructions for use may result in you missing a severe hypoglycemia (low blood glucose) or hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) occurrence. If your sensor readings are not consistent with your symptoms, a blood glucose meter may be an option as needed and consult your healthcare provider. Seek medical advice and attention when appropriate, including before making any medication adjustments and/or for any medical emergency.

INDICATIONS FOR USE: The Stelo Glucose Biosensor System is an over-the-counter (OTC) integrated Continuous Glucose Monitor (iCGM) intended to continuously measure, record, analyze, and display glucose values in people 18 years and older not on insulin. The Stelo Glucose Biosensor System helps to detect normal (euglycemic) and low or high (dysglycemic) glucose levels. The Stelo Glucose Biosensor System may also help the user better understand how lifestyle and behavior modification, including diet and exercise, impact glucose excursion. The user is not intended to take medical action based on the device output without consultation with a qualified healthcare professional.

CONTRAINDICATIONS: No MRI/CT/diathermy – MR unsafe.

WARNINGS: Choking hazard. Don’t use if you have problematic hypoglycemia. Don’t use if you are on dialysis. Don’t ignore low/high symptoms: When your sensor readings are not consistent with your symptoms, consult your health care provider. Consult your health care provider before making any medication adjustments based on your sensor readings.

Stelo Glucose Biosensor Safety Information

WHERE TO STORE: You can store your sensors at room temperature or in your refrigerator, between 36°F and 86°F, but not in the freezer.

Return and Warranty Policy: All sales are final. There are no returns or exchanges. To the extent allowed by law, the Stelo Glucose Biosensor is provided to you without any warranty by Dexcom. Dexcom hereby disclaims all warranties (express, implied, and statutory) with respect to the sensor, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. There are no warranties which can extend beyond the description herein.

¹ A study was conducted to assess the sensor life where 77.9% of sensors lasted the full 15 days. Inother words, when using the product per the package labeling, approximately 20% of sensors may not last for the full 15 days, 10% of these sensors may last less than 12 days.