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maybe using RIDF (sp?) an under-the-skin tester could give blood sugar data to a watch above. benefit would be more detail-maybe a reading every five minutes(uploadable record stored on watch)and an alternative to finger blood extract.
jesseesse, Dec 23 2004
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A wrist device to measure blood sugar without drawing blood is described on medicinenet.com. It awaits approval by the FDA. Search Google on test blood sugar for more info.
The product, GlucoWatch, is available atGlucowatch.com. Until the end of the year, there may even be a special offered by the manufacturerCygnus.
As I understand it, there was a major technological barrier to inventing a device to measure blood sugar without drawing blood. This barrier was overcome within the last few months, which is why this device is just now coming onto the market in the U.S. Health care professionals have been begging for such a device for decades. Drawing even a few drops of blood for a test like this raises all sorts of issues, and of course you can't automatically get readings every 10 minutes or so. By contrast, they figured out about 10 years ago how to measure blood oxygen without drawing blood, which what that neat little gizmo that glows red that you put on your fingertip does. And a wrist watch that measures pulse rate has been around for 30 years or more.