Oftentimes, the pain and inconvenience of finger-stick blood glucose testing results in too few tests and potentially insufficient information for optimal control. Additional information may lead to better control, and we know that better control can lead to vastly improved long term outcomes. The GlucoWatch Biographer, which is currently under FDA review for use by adults with diabetes, is a frequent, automatic, and non-invasive monitoring device intended to help detect trends and track patterns in glucose levels. It measures glucose through the wearer's skin, not from blood, as conventional glucose meters do. Measurements are made as frequently as every 20 minutes, for up to 12 hours, through the ease and convenience of a device worn like a wristwatch.
Every reading is displayed to the wearer and stored in memory.
The GlucoWatch Biographer also has the capability to alert users when glucose levels are too high or too low, or are rapidly declining. I diabetes every year. Approximately 13,000 of these new cases are children or adolescents. This means that Type I diabetes affects nearly one out of every 600 children in this country. The Children With Diabetes Foundation is managed strictly by volunteers who have children with diabetes themselves, and it is funded by donations.