Critical Health Alerts

The banner at the top of your dashboard, what puts things in it, and what it can

and cannot tell you.

What raises an alert

Two things, and only two:

A critical lab value

You upload a panel, a result comes back in a critical range, and the alert names

the marker, your value, its unit, and whether it is critically high or

critically low. Its recommended action is to contact your healthcare provider

straight away.

A medication interaction

Your medication list, or a medication class one of your conditions carries,

produces an interaction rated critical or important. The alert names the

interaction and says which of your medicines — or which condition — it came

from. Its recommended action is to review it with your prescriber.

Interactions rated moderate or good to know never become alerts. They

live on the food's page, which is where they are useful, and keeping them off

this banner is what stops it becoming something you scroll past.

What the severities mean here

SeverityComes from CriticalA critical lab value, or a critical medication interaction WarningAn important medication interaction

There is deliberately no middle rung on the medication side. Everything below

critical maps to Warning, so that exactly one level means "act now".

What the banner shows

A heading naming how many alerts need attention, then one card each with:

the title and the reading or interaction behind it

which of your medications or which medication class triggered it

the recommended action, in words

I've read this, which marks it read, and Dismiss, which removes it

a link to see all your medication interactions

An alert stays in the banner until you act on it. There is no separate history

list to dig it out of, because nothing leaves without you deciding it should.

Reading one properly

Do not panic. An alert is raised by a rule applied to data you gave the app.

It has no idea what else is going on with you, and context can make a flagged

value unremarkable.

Do read it. It names the marker or the interaction, so it is specific enough

to take to someone. The interaction alerts carry their source.

Seek immediate care — not through the app — if you have chest pain, severe

weakness, difficulty breathing or confusion, whether or not an alert is showing.

Call your local emergency number.

Alerts you cannot turn off

You cannot switch off critical alerts. They are the product's only channel for

"this needs attention now" and a setting that could silence one would eventually

silence the one that mattered.

Reminders and other notifications are a separate system entirely, with their own

switches. See

Notification Settings.

What is not in here

No pattern or behaviour alerts. ClapDiet does not raise alerts about your

logging habits, and it makes no attempt to detect an eating disorder. If you

are struggling with eating, please speak to a professional; this app is not

equipped to notice.

No alert export. To share alerts with a clinician, use Clinician

Report, which prints your conditions, medications, allergies, current

interactions and recent labs onto one page.

No alert from a food you logged. Logging a food does not raise an alert. A

critical medication interaction is shown before you log it, on the food's own

page.

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Important: ClapDiet is not a medical device. Alerts are informational and

should prompt you to seek professional medical advice. In an emergency, call

your local emergency number.

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