Still 5-10 years away, but hope for diabetics in checking their blood sugar levels without the painful needles...BD
Fourteen-year-old Robbie Mansfield pricks his finger seven times a day. That means this young baseball fan tests his blood sugar 2,555 times a year. But now, there may be a painless way to collect those numbers.
Doctor Pietro Galassetti thinks he's found it. Dr. Galassetti collected breath samples from diabetic children while blood sugar levels were high and as levels fell in response to insulin. Using a technique developed to test air pollution, chemists detected high concentrations of methyl nitrate -- a byproduct of the damage to body tissue -- when blood sugar levels are too high.
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