No more pinpricks to test glucose levels?
Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
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The following, an interesting combination
of factors:
o Glucose testing via pinpricks, something
many persons with High Glucose Conditions
practice, -but- many don't for reasons of
cost -or- social pressures -or- pain -or-
blood-aversion -or- avoidance of being
reminded that one is different -or- other
reasons, the following may provide a
pinprick-free way to test glucose levels
in the very near future (an unusually
quick, one-year, estimate is given for
development of a laptop-computer-sized
device, but no estimate is given for when
the device might be widely available, and
it probably would take considerably longer
for that to occur)
o Cost? $200 is mentioned, much higher
than present glucose monitors, -but- the
cost for supplies (0?), much lower
o Size? A device the size of a laptop com-
puter is mentioned, so that's something
that would require considerable down-
sizing in order to gain the degree of
acceptance that current methods (des-
pite their pinprick disadvantages) have
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August 10, 2010
Freedom from jab & ouch!
- City boy helps devise needle-less sugar test
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100810/jsp/nation/story_12793499.jsp
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Excerpts [with inserts, not part of original article,
inserted in brackets]:
New Delhi, Aug. 9: An ... engineer at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology has helped devise a technique to
monitor blood glucose using a beam of light that might
eliminate annoying needle pricks.
Ishan Barman is part of a research team trying to develop
a non-invasive test for blood glucose, harnessing a light
scattering phenomenon first described by Indian Nobel
laureate C.V. Raman in 1928.
The team has shown that it is possible to monitor blood
glucose by shining a low-powered laser beam on the
forearm and analysing the frequencies of photons that
scatter, or bounce off. The photons that interact with
any glucose molecules in the bloodstream return with
glucose-specific frequency changes that may be used
to quantify the glucose levels in the blood.
"We're now at the proof-of-concept stage - the instrument
we use is quite large," said Barman, who's pursuing a PhD
at MIT. "But we're trying to develop a laptop-sized device
that we hope to have ready within a year," he told The
Telegraph.
Researchers at MIT's Spectroscopy Laboratory have been
pursuing a non-invasive test for blood glucose through
Raman spectroscopy - a concept envisioned by the late
MIT professor of physics Michael Feld - for nearly 15
years.
A major obstacle has been that a typical low-powered laser
penetrates about half-a-millimetre below the skin where it
can only measure the amount of glucose in the fluid that
bathes the skin cells - the interstitial fluid.
The interstitial fluid glucose levels are always slightly differ-
ent from actual blood glucose levels. Although interstitial
glucose levels may be used to compute blood glucose
levels through a process of calibration, this requires fre-
quent needle pricks.
Barman ... helped develop a mathematical technique that
allows the blood glucose readings to be predicted using
interstitial glucose levels.
...
The research is described in the current issue of the journal
Analytical Chemistry.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ac100810e
...
The next phase of the research ... will aim at developing a
practical instrument that could be tested on a large number
of human volunteers. It requires a low-powered laser of the
type used in laser pointers - and a detector for the analysis
of the light scattered by the tissues. "Our goal is to design
an instrument that might cost under $ 200," ...
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>
> The following, an interesting combination
> of factors:
>
> o Glucose testing via pinpricks, something
> many persons with High Glucose Conditions
> practice, -but- many don't for reasons of
> cost -or- social pressures -or- pain -or-
> blood-aversion -or- avoidance of being
> reminded that one is different -or- other
> reasons, the following may provide a
> pinprick-free way to test glucose levels
> in the very near future (an unusually
> quick, one-year, estimate is given for
> development of a laptop-computer-sized
> device, but no estimate is given for when
> the device might be widely available, and
> it probably would take considerably longer
> for that to occur)
Update -- the following article offers a much
less optimistic view of the situation in the
following excerpt, differing greatly from the
previous reports, unfortunately:
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August 16, 2010
Device uses light to
measure blood sugar levels
at theengineer.co.uk:
http://tinyurl.com/light-glucoselevels-newdevice
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Excerpt:
...
Barman speculated that it would take around four
to five years to produce a clinical model, costing
around $15,000 to $20,000 (£9,600 to £12,800)
per unit, and up to eight years to produce a laptop-
size model for personal use, costing around $2,000
to $3,000 per unit.
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