Sweat Meter: An Innovation for Diabetics
Another new innovation in the world of medicine has already arrived for the treatment of diabetic patients worldwide. This new invention will set a new standard in the random measuring of blood glucose level of diabetic patients. This new meter has the ability to get rid of the need of using needles to prick finger tips just to measure blood glucose, it can measure low blood sugar using the patients sweat.
Overview
The new sweat meter measures the blood glucose levels by analyzing variances in sweat patterns. Researchers in Oslo, Norway found a way to detect glucose levels with the changes our body’s sweat patterns. This device consists of at least three electrodes which are placed on the skin. This would guarantee a more accurate reading of electrical currents that are sent via the skin and through the sweat glands. It measures the amount of electricity generated and makes an accurate measurement of blood glucose.
Advantages
The advantages of this meter helps provide an alternative way for measuring blood glucose levels in diabetic patients. These patients have endured the painful needle sticks just to acquire the blood for measuring their glucose levels in the past years. With this meter, there will be no need of using needles and pricking the skin just to measure glucose level. The only thing to be done is just to attach the electrodes to the skin and let the meter read the glucose level. This meter will prevent those painful experiences that diabetic patients in hospitals and at home have endured.
Further developments
As of now, the meter can only measure low blood sugar levels. More developments are now being undertaken to make the meter capable of measuring high blood sugar levels as well. In the future, a prototype may be developed and tested among diabetic patients in order to tests its effectiveness and accuracy.
This invention sheds a new light in the treatment of diabetic patients. It will help lessen the painful treatments that diabetic patients have endured through out the years.
