Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Given the choice of taking a pill or injecting oneself with a needle, most of us would opt to regulate a chronic health condition by swallowing a pill. But for millions of people living with type 1 diabetes, a painful needle prick once or twice daily is the only option for delivering the insulin that their bodies cannot produce on their own.
Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an oral delivery method that could dramatically transform the way in which diabetics keep their blood sugar levels in check.
Not only does oral delivery of insulin promise to improve the quality of life for up to 40 million people with type 1 diabetes worldwide, it could also mitigate many of the disease's life-threatening side effects that result from patients failing to give themselves required injections.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625192838.htm
That old misconception of 'painful needle pricks' yet again...🙄 For most people the needles aren't in the least bit painful as they are so short and fine these days, it's the mental gymnastics that go into calculating the dose and timing that's the real problem and harder to solve than Kepler's laws of planetary motion every blessed mealtime! 😱
My guess is it will be (at least!) 10 years off... 😉
Now, researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an oral delivery method that could dramatically transform the way in which diabetics keep their blood sugar levels in check.
Not only does oral delivery of insulin promise to improve the quality of life for up to 40 million people with type 1 diabetes worldwide, it could also mitigate many of the disease's life-threatening side effects that result from patients failing to give themselves required injections.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180625192838.htm
That old misconception of 'painful needle pricks' yet again...🙄 For most people the needles aren't in the least bit painful as they are so short and fine these days, it's the mental gymnastics that go into calculating the dose and timing that's the real problem and harder to solve than Kepler's laws of planetary motion every blessed mealtime! 😱
My guess is it will be (at least!) 10 years off... 😉