For diabetic patients, contact lenses that can monitor their blood glucose levels

It is said to be a contact lens that can be learned by current researchers at the University of Maryland in the U.S., depending on the amount of glucose contained in the tears whether the current blood glucose level is high or low. By the way, according to Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare Diabetes MellitusThere are 13.7 million patients in JapanIt is presumed to be a lifestyle disease disease.

Looking at these figures, I feel that it is not for each person ....

Details are as follows.ScienceDaily: Contact lenses check blood sugar

According to this article, by using the contact lens developed this time, diabetic patients will always be able to judge their blood glucose level with small translucent dots at the bottom left of the field of view. Whether the blood glucose level goes up or down, it will change the color according to the risk.

Although it seems that it is currently being tested whether commercial use is really possible, since there is no other way to measure blood glucose, there is no choice but to collect blood, it may help people with diabetes when commercialized.

At the same time as developing this contact lens, it seems that lenses reacting to cholesterol in the blood are also being developed.