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Use this page to prepare questions for your care team. It does not replace their advice. Your own targets and doses come from your nephrologist, diabetes team and renal dietitian.

Reports for your care team

Your dietitian can help far more with a week of real numbers than with "I try to eat well". The app gives you three things to bring: the Trends charts, the period summary, and a CSV file with every entry (architecture contract).

What to bring

Report Where Best for
Period summary Trends (top card) a one-screen answer to "how was your week?"
Charts for 7, 14 or 30 days Trends spotting patterns: weekends, dialysis days, a food that keeps coming back
Export CSV Trends → Export CSV the dietitian's own analysis in a spreadsheet
Last 7 days strip bottom of Today a quick look between visits
Symptoms Today → Symptoms; Trends → Symptoms showing how a symptom went, with its dates
Weight and blood pressure Today → Weight and blood pressure; Trends → Weight and blood pressure showing weights and readings with the two numbers your team gave you (Weight and blood pressure)
Visit prep Trends → Get ready for a visit one printable page for an appointment

The period summary

For each nutrient with a target, the card shows:

  • the average per logged day against your target, colored ok, near limit or over;
  • how many days were over, and the highest day;
  • the change from the period before (for example "−7 %");
  • how it is judged: potassium, sodium, fluid and carbohydrate day by day; phosphorus, protein, calories and calcium on the weekly average (KDOQI 2020).

Days with nothing logged are left out of the averages, and the card says how many days you logged. A half-logged day pulls averages down, so log whole days.

On hemodialysis with your dialysis days set, the card adds the since-last-session totals, for example "Since dialysis on Friday: potassium 7,200 mg of 7,500 mg for 3 days". Deaths and hospital stays are more common after the long weekend gap (Foley 2011), and large weight gains between sessions are linked to heart problems (Cabrera 2015; Dialysis days).

The CSV export

Trends → Export CSV downloads a file for the days on screen (7, 14 or 30). It has one row per entry and opens in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers or LibreOffice.

Columns Meaning
date, meal, status the day, breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack, and eaten or planned
food_name, servings, grams, note what and how much, plus your note
calories_kcal … fluid_ml the 12 nutrients for that entry, already multiplied by the servings
id, food_id, created_at, updated_at for the app; your dietitian can ignore them
purpose hypo when the entry treated a low (its carbohydrate is not part of a meal)
source, source_license where the food's numbers came from (builtin, custom, USDA, Open Food Facts) and their licence; Open Food Facts data is under the Open Database License, which the file must keep if you share it

To make a daily total in a spreadsheet, filter status to eaten and add up by date. Planned rows are food you had not eaten when you exported.

Text (food names, notes) that starts with =, +, -, @, a tab or a line break gets a leading apostrophe in the file, so a spreadsheet does not run it as a formula (architecture contract; design note 03).

Symptoms you write down

When you change the date, the Symptoms card clears while that day's entries load. It loads separately from your food log. If it cannot load them, press Try again.

Today → Symptoms → Add records a symptom for a day. Pick it from the list (swelling, itching, tiredness, cramps, nausea, breathlessness, poor appetite, or Other with a name of your own, up to 60 characters), choose Mild, Moderate or Severe, and add a note if you like, for example when it started. You can Edit or Delete an entry, and you can add one for today or for a day that has passed. Trends → Symptoms lists what you recorded in the days on screen: for each symptom the number of days, the worst severity and the dates, so you can show your care team how it went. The export has them too (symptoms.csv and export.json), and they need your connection to the server: they are not saved while you are offline.

The app records and shows them. It does not say what a symptom means, what causes it or what to do about it; that is for your care team. Two symptoms are different, because the Get help now page lists them. It lists "severe breathlessness" and "sudden breathlessness or fainting with no clear cause" under Call 911 now, and "new swelling of the legs, ankles or face" under Call your care team today. When you record one of those, the app shows the handbook's own words and a link to that page, and a severe one stands out. Itch, tiredness, poor appetite or nausea, and muscle cramps are on that page under Mention at your next visit; it adds: "If any of these get worse quickly, do not wait: call today." Symptoms are never sent to an AI provider or an assistant (Privacy and your data).

Visit prep: one page for an appointment

Trends → Get ready for a visit opens Visit prep. Choose the last 2 weeks, 4 weeks (the first choice) or 3 months, then press Print / Save as PDF; your browser prints the page or saves it as a PDF, and the header, tabs and buttons are left off. It is made on your device and nothing is sent anywhere. The page shows:

  • your averages per day of sodium, potassium, phosphorus and protein (and fluid, if you have a fluid target) against your targets: the same numbers as the period summary, with how many days had food entries. When some foods do not list a value, the page says "at least" or "Not listed" and how many foods are missing; it never shows a missing value as 0;
  • the latest result of each lab test, its date, the result before it and an arrow: ↑ higher, ↓ lower, → the same. The arrow only compares the two numbers; it does not say what a change means, which is for your care team (Lab results);
  • the symptoms you recorded in that period, grouped by symptom with the number of days and the worst severity, and the handbook's own words for the warning signs, as in "Symptoms you write down" above;
  • your weight and blood pressure: the latest weight and the change over six months, on hemodialysis the gains between your last sessions, your blood pressure averages for the last 7 and 30 days, how many readings were at or above your goal, and any reading the handbook points to, with its date (Weight and blood pressure). The app records and shows them: what a number means is for your care team;
  • My questions: type your own. The list is not saved on your device or on your server and is never seen by the AI, so it is gone when you leave or reload the page: print it or save the PDF first. Under it are the checklist items from Getting the most from appointments to tick.

Your name is printed only if you gave the app a display name. The page records and shows; it never says whether a number is good or bad.

What to do before a visit

  • Ask your dietitian which days they want to see, and how they want the file (printed, on your phone, or through the clinic's patient portal).
  • Log those days completely: drinks, sauces, snacks and low treatments too.
  • Delete planned entries you did not eat, and tap Eaten on the ones you did.
  • Open Trends, pick the range and take a screenshot of the period summary and of the Symptoms list, or press Get ready for a visit and print or save the page.
  • Export the CSV for the same range.
  • Bring your lab results and your medicine list (Your medicine list).

Questions to ask

  1. "Which nutrient should I work on first?"
  2. "My potassium is over on weekends. Which foods would you change?"
  3. "Is my protein high enough on dialysis days?" (or "not too high", before dialysis)
  4. "Are my targets in the app still right after my latest labs?"
  5. "Do my carbohydrate amounts per meal look steady enough?"

More: Questions to ask and Appointments.

Insights and the full export

  • Insights on Trends sum up the days you chose in plain words with numbers, such as "Potassium was over your limit on 2 of 7 days (Sat, Sun). The main sources were potatoes and orange juice." Today shows the same for a single day once breakfast, lunch and dinner are logged, or after 7 pm (Meal guidance; design note 06). Low treatments are left out of the carbohydrate insights.
  • Settings → Account → Your data → Export my data (.zip) downloads everything in one file (JSON and CSV, lab results included), for your own records or to move to another server (Import from a file, Privacy and your data; design note 07). For your dietitian, the CSV above is easier.

If something goes wrong

  • The averages look too low. Check that you logged every meal on the days shown. Unknown values in Quick add foods also make totals low.
  • The file opens as one long column. Open it with your spreadsheet's import, and choose "comma" as the separator.
  • Nothing downloads in the preview or demo version. The demo shows the CSV text to copy instead; the installed app downloads a .csv file.

Sources

Not yet reviewed by a clinician. Facts and sources last checked 2026-10-07.