Monitor Your Diabetes With A High-Tech Tattoo
June 7th, 2010 - 6:56 pm ICT by Pen Men At WorkJune 7, 2010 (Pen Men at Work): Diabetes is one of those dreaded diseases that India is unable to control. A good number of people succumb to death every year in this country as well as across the world because of this medical condition.
The diabetes patients suffer a lot of their glucose levels in control. Now, monitoring the blood glucose level has become much more easier. You don’t need to prick your fingers to take a blood sample. Simply go in for a fashionable tattoo and forget those painful sessions.
This latest addition of the body art form can keep a check on your blood glucose levels providing continuous levels in real time. The chemical engineers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) discovered that by the use of carbon nanotubes technology, this body art form can be injected under the skin, but it is still under the testing stage.
Once the test becomes successful, people suffering from Type I diabetes, will never be required to undergo the painful finger pricking process again. However, there is no need to worry if your child undergoes this medical condition.
The nanotubes wrapped in polymer, will be used, and can pick up glucose concentrations. The device comes in the size of a watch and infrared light is required to help the system work.
This glucose ‘tattoo’ will provide the patient with a visual track of their blood sugar too.
The monitor will last for about six months, according to Elizabeth Armstrong Moore from Cnet News.
This comes as another example of technology improving the healthcare and quality of our life.
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