Pricking one’s finger to draw blood to measure glucose can be really bothersome. Fortunately, that may be a thing of the past thanks to a group of researchers at Cardiff University, in Whales, who are working to develop a non-invasive, bloodless way to test blood sugar.
“The process is painless and completely safe”
They developed a small device, that is attached to the arm or leg with an adhesive. The device uses microwaves to test blood sugar without puncturing the skin. The device uses a similar frequency of a microwave oven (2 gigahertz), but with much less power than one. It’s painless and completely safe.
Once attached, the device sends data to a mobile app, where you can see a graph and continuously monitor your blood sugar levels.
This solves the problem of type 1 diabetes patients who have to measure their blood sugar up 6 times a day, or 20,000 times over a decade. In the USA a person lives an average of 78 years, that’s 1.5 million pricks in a lifetime.
This method to monitor blood glucose sounds amazing, right? Let’s hope the development hits the shelves soon.
