Making diabetes less painful
Treating and managing diabetes is difficult enough
without the added pain of pinprick blood monitoring
and painful insulin injections. The number of times
a diabetic has to test blood sugar levels and administer
insulin depends on their individual diabetic situation.
Although diabetes cures and permanent treatments are
on the horizon, for the moment accurate and diligent
prevention strategies are the key to managing diabetes
successfully. Two areas in particular cause diabetics
pain – administering insulin and monitoring
the blood.
Insulin Injections
Many diabetics dislike injecting insulin, and choose
any route possible to avoid insulin injections. Insulin
pumps offer one alternative to daily injections for
type 1 diabetics and those type 2 diabetics that require
insulin. Automatic insulin pumps mean fewer injections,
and because the needle is sited under the skin this
type of medication is less painful.
Inhaled insulin is another alternative for diabetics
who hate insulin injections, or are allergic to them.
Inhaled insulin is currently rare, but it is available
in some countries. Concerns exist over the influence
of inhaled insulin on the lungs, so diabetics seeking
this form of insulin should get advice from a healthcare
professional.
Blood Glucose Monitoring
Another painful aspect of diabetes is the finger pinpricks
to test blood sugar levels. Many diabetics confirm
that this is more painful than injecting insulin.
On the market now are wristwatch monitors that avoid
any pinprick monitoring. These monitors draw the glucose
into a small gel disc using an electric current, and
measuring blood glucose painlessly.
The future
The future will likely make diabetes a much less painful
disease, that is if the disease is not successfully
cured first. For instance, microchip technology will
likely be able to read blood sugar levels completely
painlessly. Furthermore, ultrasonic injections may
be able to inject insulin painlessly in the future.
Call transplantation, the process by which insulin-producing
cells from non-diabetics are transferred to diabetics
have been tried and tested throughout the world, and
the process is getting better and better.
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