Digital scale

Please respond.I have read confused information about digital scales. Are there. Any safe ones people with pacemaker can use.

jennycraig

4 Comments

I use a digital scale. I

by PacedNRunning - 2021-04-30 00:48:21

I use a digital scale. It's fine. 

The issue isn't whether a scale is digital versus analogue...

by crustyg - 2021-04-30 07:33:09

.. it's that often the 'digital' scales also attempt to measure body fat.  These ones are not suitable for folk with a PM.

In theory you could wear rubber-based thin slippers and stand on one of these fat-measuring scales in safety (so you don't need two scales for you and partner).

Although I'm very sceptical about body fat measurement in this way.  Skin-fold thickness, yes, total body weight versus height (BMI) yes, but otherwise I'm not a believer.

Do they still make analog scales?

by AgentX86 - 2021-04-30 11:28:33

As Crusty says, it's not whether they're digital or not, that's just a readout device, rather if they pass current through the body to measure its resistance (and presumably the volume of water).  It's this current that can affect a PM.  For similar reasons, TENS units are proscribed.

Withings Body+?

by MinimeJer05 - 2021-09-13 23:00:01

My Withings Body+ has all of the bells and whistles that worked great before my pacemaker. Now I'm looking at it after and it said there's a way to turn off the body fat calculating and just do weight. And that it should be fine with Pacemaker. 
 

i made the adjustment but am afraid to test it out. What's the worst case scenario here? It zaps the pacemaker off?

You know you're wired when...

Your pacemaker interferes with your electronic scale.

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