How to Measure Blood Sugar Without Breaking the Skin

One key to healthful living with diabetes is monitoring sugar levels to ensure they remain stable. People can easily do this at home using devices that read sugar levels in a drop of blood. Now a team of researchers has devised a non-invasive way to make monitoring easier. Using infrared laser light applied on top of the skin, they measure sugar levels in the fluid in and under skin cells to read blood sugar levels.
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Echo Therapeutics is testing a biosensor system that reads glucose levels without breaking the skin

Monitoring of blood glucose (i.e., blood sugar) levels is important in patients with diabetes mellitus. Persistently high blood sugar damages your blood vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys. Conversely, treatment with insulin or oral hypoglycemic drugs may lead to an abrupt drop in blood sugar levels. This causes behavioral changes, seizures, loss of...

Find out how new diabetes technology called continuous glucose monitoring could make finger pricks a thing of the past.

Finger-prick tests to monitor blood glucose levels can be the bane of a diabetic's life. In a move that could put an end to such tests in the future, researchers at Princeton University have developed a non-invasive way to test blood glucose levels using a laser.
Tags: Laser, Princeton, Diabetes, Diabetic, Non-invasive