Is there any new glucose testing without blood drawing?
ANSWER: Hi, To my knowledge, there is an innovative device called GlucoWatch, which measures your blood sugar level every 20 minutes without drawing a blood from your body. This is a pretty clever and intelligent technology that provides you information about the status of your blood sugar without pain. This device consists of a pad that should be situated between your wrist and the watch. This pad emits impulses generated by the batter of the watch. These impulses are attracting the glucose molecules from your blood near by the wall of the blood vessels. The amount of glucose in your blood is measured through a chemical reaction. This watch has also an alarm indicating the lowest and highest levels of your blood sugar. Therefore, it keeps an eye of your blood glucose level. At an external glance, you will notice that this watch has all the characteristics of a watch, e.g., showing the time and date, but you have to know that this watch provides you the possibility of memorizing the values of your blood glucose for the past three months. This will absolutely help you with the regulation of your blood sugar and it will provide you information about how you are controlling your diabetes. Besides this, it will help your doctor to make any adjustments in the therapy or in the diet if it is necessary. The questions myself raise here are related to its accuracy and the ways the impulses are battered from the watch although the assurance given from the company, which created this "blood-sugar-watch". All the best! Dr.Alba |