By: Natasha Archary

No more needles for people living with diabetes, as innovative new technology is sweeping into the medical industry.
Dr Grant Newton, CEO of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology (CDE) joins Kaya Biz to share more about the devices that are entering the market to help people living with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels without injections or needles.
Two healthcare companies in South Africa, 3Sixty Global Solutions Group and the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology (CDE) have joined forces to develop wearable devices to monitor blood sugar levels.
One device can be worn on the arm to monitor sugar levels, and the other is a mobile hand held camera to detect complications linked to diabetes, such as hypertension, complications of the eyes or complications of the nerves in the legs and feet.
Dr Newton says the devices will be available in South Africa from May, and is good news for people who have a fear of needles, or trypanophobia.
“People are scared to bleed and I have this adage that says, there’s no need to bleed.
Technology is expanding in such a rapid way that if I point this camera in your eyes right now, in 30 seconds I’d be able to tell your age, if you’re a smoker or not, if you have diabetes, hypertension or cholesterol.
The technology we have now for screening can help diagnose people sooner, long before they show any signs of pre-diabetes.”
Dr Grant Newton shares more about the devices can help people living with diabetes
Currently Diabetics must prick their fingers to know if sugar level is too high or too low in their bodies.
The companies are getting rid of the painful injections by introducing needle-free devices. This means people living with diabetes will no longer jab themselves to monitor blood sugar levels. This is a milestone, as monitoring sugar in the blood will be painless.
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