The power of the Apple Watch. Smartwatch found health problems in a young girl almost six months before the diagnosis

There are many stories about how the Apple Watch saves lives. But usually these are either situations with falls, or situations when the clock detects some kind of deviation in the work of the heart, and literally within a day the person ends up in the hospital, where he is confirmed to have problems. The new story shows that the potential of modern devices is even higher.

The power of the Apple Watch.  Smartwatch found health problems in a young girl almost six months before the diagnosis

The hero of this story was a medical student named Lauren from Australia. She said that a few months ago (in October), her Apple Watch recorded a decrease in blood oxygenation. However, Lauren had disabled the functions responsible for alerting the user to potential health problems, so she saw the corresponding data from the watch only a few months later, when she was already in the hospital.

The drop in blood oxygen saturation, as it turned out, coincided with the manifestation of other symptoms, including fatigue, sensitivity to heat, weight gain, dry skin and increased irritability. As a result, the girl was diagnosed with hemiagenesis of the thyroid gland.

The girl told her story on TikTok, urging everyone to activate the relevant features on their Apple Watch. She herself previously simply did not consider the clock a full-fledged source of such information.

Don’t get me wrong, your Apple Watch is definitely not something you should be following as medical advice, but I think it can come in handy as a tool to encourage you to go further.

In this case, I would really like to have all the settings turned on, I noticed the changes in advance and would go to the doctor as soon as possible

Source: ixbt

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