NOVEL METHOD FOR DIABETES DETECTION: NO PRICK, NO PAIN

Diabetes is a condition that happens when blood sugar Mi(glucose) is too high. It develops when pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin or any ata ll, or when body isn’t responding to the effects of insulin properly. Diabetes affects people of all ages. Most forms of diabetes are chronic (lifelong), and al forms are manageable with medications and/or lifestyle changes. Diabetes Mellitus is a metabolic disease, involving two categories :– type-1 and type- 2. T1DM is categorised by the destruction of beta cells in the pancreas, typically secondary to an autoimmune process. The result is the absolute destruction of beta cells, and consequently, insulin is absent or extremely low. T2DM involves a more insidious onset where an imbalance between insulin level and insulin sensitivity cause a functional deficit of insulin. Insulin resistance is multifactorial but commonly develops from obesityand aging. Severe hyperglycaemia can lead to various health problems like nerve damage, heart disease and stroke, kidney damage, eye damage, etc. Glucose level monitoring and controlling is thus necessary in patients with diabetes. Traditional method involves needle prick for gaining blood sample followed by checking the respective glucose level. The project is regarding the new method for detection of diabetes mellitus. The new method is without prick and detection of diabetes from just sweat ! As it doesn’t involves pricking, patient does not need to bear the pain.