disposable insulin device type 2

[hotchop]

http://www.diabetes.co.uk/news/2011...evice-receives-further-approval-97137896.html


I wonder how long this will take to come to market in the Uk.. will it ever?

 

[hotchop]

Im confused though.. The blurb says that it is needle free and therefore im assuming the insulin seeps into the skin?

 

[Northerner]

What is it? Doesn't really say, but sounds a bit like a disposable pump with only one basal rate - a bit more information here:

http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2011/03/v-go-disposable-no-needle-insulin.html

 

[trophywench]

http://www.go-vgo.com/

Fixed rate basal (well 3 different rates, but whose basal is the same for each hour out of every 24? Answer maybe the lab rats????) plus bolus delivery. Bout the same size as the Pod off an Omnipod pump, but that's teardrop shaped instead of an oblong.

Limited usefulness?

But very quiet on the 'how does the insulin get into me?' front ......

 

[AlisonM]

Yes, and would the absorption rate vary depending on your weight? It looks like a nicorette patch type thing with a holder for the vial of insulin attached. Hmm...

And why only for T2s? Do they not need the variable doses like every one else who needs insulin?

 

[hotchop]

I had an appointment with my dsn at the hospital today and mentioned this.

Her opinion was that the whole thing was flawed and not cost effective, reliable or accurate in delivery of insulin

She thought that it would be marketed to type 2 children and young ppl who had a needle phobia rather than mass market and only as a stepping stone onto injections.

An interesting conversation!

 

[Northerner]

I had an appointment with my dsn at the hospital today and mentioned this.

Her opinion was that the whole thing was flawed and not cost effective, reliable or accurate in delivery of insulin

She thought that it would be marketed to type 2 children and young ppl who had a needle phobia rather than mass market and only as a stepping stone onto injections.

An interesting conversation!

I didn't think there were many Type 2 children, so it wouldn't be a very big market. I would have thought that it would be aimed at older people who were non-compliant with their injections for whatever reason - I have known one or two people myself who say 'I'll never inject' 😱

I wouldn't have thought they could market it at all if it wasn't reliable - medical devices have hugely high levels of quality checking before they can be approved. Mind you if it costs more than using a pen then it's doubtful it will ever appear here!

 

[hotchop]

I thought the same re type 2 children but apparently its a huge issue, with numbers doubling on average yearly since the last 3 years and lifestyles being blamed..... so i was told lol

 

[Northerner]

I thought the same re type 2 children but apparently its a huge issue, with numbers doubling on average yearly since the last 3 years and lifestyles being blamed..... so i was told lol

There are quite a few in the US it's true - hence Jamie's drive to get schools serving healthier food. 🙂

 

[Robster65]

If you look on the valeritas website under the technologies heading, it gives a couple of possible methods of delivery.

They seem to specialise in a sort of pumped patch and/or a microneedle array that penetrates the skin with several tiny needles.

Either way, comfortable, convenient, expensive. As you said. No go. 🙄

Rob