Subcutaneous tracking sugar content: Wireless glucose sensor

According to one in pigs carried out new research reported that an implant of sensors to 1 year or longer to wireless means the blood sugar concentration in transfer to an external receiver.

If this approach in humans have shown to be effective, the implants will allow diabetics to wireless means continuous monitoring of blood glucose and the information presented to a physician or patient care. From the sensor information can be used to assist in determining insulin injection or oral hypoglycemic agents of dose and timing of delivery, on dangerous hypoglycemia alert concentration and guide the adjustment of diet and exercise to help people with diabetes. All diabetes patients are working hard to regain control of blood sugar is normal, because their blood glucose levels can eat after climbing or after the injection of insulin decreased to a low level of risk. High concentrations of blood glucose can cause such as kidney disease, blindness, and heart disease and other serious complications, and low levels of blood glucose can lead to temporary mental distress, loss of consciousness and various accidents. Measuring blood glucose concentration on the control of diabetes is crucial, it is usually a finger Thorn and 1 or 2 drops of blood on a handheld device to measure blood sugar concentration.

Since most patients feel that this inconvenience, and therefore their cumbersome rarely sufficiently frequent detection to tracking the rapid pace of change in blood sugar.

For decades, the field of diabetes treatment has been tirelessly explored automation, long term implantation of blood glucose sensors. However, a significant obstacle is the need to develop a can avoid being body exclusion and can have enough time to play feature and makes people believe in human implantation of the device is necessary for sensing system. Today, David Gough and his colleagues demonstrated that people can win these challenges; the research team will be a wireless implantable glucose sensor to subcutaneous pig of diabetes, and they are more than a year of monitoring. In the sensor's help, researchers can frequently insulin injection and diet to successfully control these pigs of diabetes. The result is in the human body carrying out tests of this kind of sensor has laid the Foundation for clinical trials, it will be possible to achieve a more easy, reliable blood glucose control and allow diabetics benefited.