Care Touch Diabetes Testing Kit – Care Touch Blood Glucose Meter, 100 Blood Test Strips, 1 Lancing Device, 30 gauge Lancets-100 count and Carrying Case

Care Touch Diabetes Testing Kit – Care Touch Blood Glucose Meter, 100 Blood Test Strips, 1 Lancing Device, 30 gauge Lancets-100 count and Carrying Case
 

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Glucose monitors for diabetics gain healthy supporters

By real-time monitoring, people without the disease are increasingly using the device

Indicated for patients with diabetes, the continuous glucose monitor (MCG) is being used by a small but growing group of people without the disease who want to know more about their own body. The MCG is attached to the person's body, and is a device composed of a needle, which makes a small hole in the individual's skin, and a sensor that tracks changes in blood sugar level in real time, and is generally used after indication. doctor.
Since the first monitor approved in 2005 (in the U.S.), some people with diabetes have been using the devices to help monitor blood sugar, rather than having a finger prick throughout the day to check manually. MCGs take a periodic measurement, and people can set 'alarms' to alert them whenever their levels are dangerously high or low. In Brazil, the first device arrived only in 2016.

Tabb Firchau is a businessman who lives in Seattle (USA) and has been using the monitor for more than a month. The data is then sent directly to Tabb's smartphone. The businessman bought his MCG over the internet for approximately $ 300. Here in Brazil, an MCG starter kit is available for 599 reais (device + 2 sensors), and each sensor - which lasts 14 days - costs 239 reais, a cost that can reach at least 6,300 reais in the first year (including purchase of the device).

“I follow almost everything, from sleep to exercise,” says Tabb to the Time magazine report. “I have been trying to find out why some days I feel fantastic, and some days I don't. I ate a cinnamon dessert recently and my blood glucose doubled in an hour. The monitor helps you understand the costs of the decisions you are making, ”says Firchau to the report.

Tabb, however, was unable to get the device on the recommendation of his doctor, because he does not have diabetes. A healthy person using a diabetes device may seem awkward. However, individuals like Firchau say it makes sense to control their blood sugar, especially given the recent attention to the risks of the onset of chronic diseases associated with excessive consumption of processed sugars and carbohydrates, which can range from diabetes and heart disease to obesity.

Blood sugar levels change throughout the day for everyone, and especially after eating. These fluctuations, however, are important to accompany people with diabetes, since for this group the body does not regulate blood sugar on its own. For those without diabetes, however, the pancreas naturally releases insulin to maintain levels within a normal range.

Learning about nutrition
"I think it is fun and interesting for a diabetes tool to take that path," says Aaron Kowalski, a type 1 diabetes patient and head of mission for JDRF Diabetes - a nonprofit fund that aims to fund research on diabetes 1. "But I guarantee that if you used one at McDonald's your blood sugar would rise and you would learn a lot about nutrition, ”adds Kowalski.
Using an MCG, even when it is medically necessary, is not cheap. Parts of the device have to be replaced every two weeks - or months - and MCGs are estimated to cost $ 5 to $ 10 a day - about $ 3,000 a year. In the US to buy from a physical store, people without the disease must convince a doctor to prescribe the device. Or simply buy it online, without a prescription.

Experts don't think it's dangerous
Five diabetes experts interviewed by Time do not think the use of MCG is dangerous. Although the device is connected to the user's body, it is considered a minimally invasive device. "I don't think there is any risk," says Boris Kovatchev, director of the Center for Diabetes Technology at the University of Virginia (UVA). "Unless people are very obsessed [overly concerned with swings]," adds Kovatchev.
Even some doctors who do not have diabetes use MCG. Dr. Steven Russell, a diabetes specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and his research collaborator Dr. Ed Damiano of Boston University, say they use MCG sometimes for demonstration purposes and to test new versions.

"I am fascinated to see how my blood glucose changes after different meals," says Dr. Russell. “You look at a candy and remember what it did to your blood glucose, and you end up making a different choice. There is no reason why people without diabetes would not be interested in this ”, adds the researcher.

However, experts admit that there is no research that proves that using an MCG can improve the health of a person without diabetes. So far, all the evidence is superficial. While it is unlikely that the devices would cause major problems, in addition to possible skin rashes or infections at the injection site, this has also not been studied in people without diabetes. Dr. Kovatchev, from UVA, also argues that MCGs could be more useful for people without diabetes with some adjustments. "There is a need for some analysis that could process the data properly and provide information to people versus a flow of data," he says.