Diabetic contact lenses: change color ...

fer's profile photo   12/24/2009 3:18 a.m.

Contact lenses for diabetics: They change color to variations in glucose levels

Unfortunately, diabetes is a fairly widespread disease, complicated, dangerous and that today has no cure.In a very simple way a diabetic is one that either produces little or nothing insulin, or its cells do not respond to it, being the result in any of the cases high blood glucose concentrations which can cause truly serious problems (collapseblood vessels, kidneys, nerves etc).

Due to this, diabetes patients have to constantly measure their blood sugar levels (in some cases up to 7 or 8 daily measurements) so as notProblem: They require a blood sample that is obtained after small puncture.That is a gain, to put it very fine.Nobody likes to be clicking all the holy day (and if the patient has to inject herself also insulin imagine the ordeal).

Well, now thanks to an engineer in biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario, Jin Zhang, may soon improve the quality of life of diabetes patients by eliminating the punctures of their lives.

As?Thanks to a new technology developed by Zhang that allows to monitor the glucose levels of any person through the use of contact lenses.These lenses have nanoparticles that react to contact with glucose molecules present in the tears changing color.There is therefore a visual alert that warns about the fall or rise in sugar levels.

The advance seems simply great and also the thing is not here.This technology, with research and variations, could be applied to many other fields and not only to biomedical devices.At the moment they have already given Jin Zhagn Financing to continue working on their research, which is another great news since surely we will see more equally interesting results that these lenses that change color when they come into contact with sugar molecules

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12/24/2009 3:18 a.m.

@fer - Diabetes Tipo 1 desde 1.998 | FreeStyle Libre 3 | Ypsomed mylife YpsoPump + CamAPS FX | Sin complicaciones. Miembro del equipo de moderación del foro.
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How will this go?

Purple less than 40 mg/dl
Rosa less than 60 mg/dl
Green less than 140 mg/dl.
Yellow up to 180 mg/dl
Red up to 250 mg/dl
Black above 250 mg/dl

Will Hi also leave if it is above 650 mg/dl?

Should we be crying all day?:)) What if you are sleeping how you see the color of the lentilla?: Mrgreen:

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12/24/2009 5:40 a.m.
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Well, I use lenses but it doesn't seem very practical, I would have to be with a mirror looking at my eyes ??????????And how would I see my eyes to colors ???????Ufffff almost better I keep clicking my finger: Mrgreen :: Mrgreen :: Mrgreen :: Mrgreen:

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12/24/2009 7:14 a.m.
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