Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
(USA) Molly Johnson says she?s no scientist, but felt the effects of faulty insulin pumps firsthand when her diabetic daughter, Sarah, had her own struggle with the devices.
Sarah was diagnosed with Childhood diabetes as a toddler and went on the pump at the age of 3. The pump works to keep blood sugar low by feeding insulin to the bloodstream through a thin plastic tube. But when Johnson saw that her daughter?s blood sugar levels were going up instead of down, she was told that air bubbles in the pump tubing were keeping the insulin from getting through.
http://www.brightonpittsfordpost.co...man-wins-award-in-diabetes-innovation-contest
Sarah was diagnosed with Childhood diabetes as a toddler and went on the pump at the age of 3. The pump works to keep blood sugar low by feeding insulin to the bloodstream through a thin plastic tube. But when Johnson saw that her daughter?s blood sugar levels were going up instead of down, she was told that air bubbles in the pump tubing were keeping the insulin from getting through.
http://www.brightonpittsfordpost.co...man-wins-award-in-diabetes-innovation-contest